The Closing Door: Conservative Policy and Black OpportunityUniversity of Chicago Press, 28/05/1991 - 254 من الصفحات The Closing Door is the first major critique of the effect of conservative policies on urban race and poverty in the 1980s. Atlanta, with its booming economy, strong elected black leadership, and many highly educated blacks, seemed to be the perfect site for those policies and market solutions to prove themselves. Unfortunately, not only did expected economic opportunity fail to materialize but many of the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement were lost. Orfield and Ashkinaze painstakingly analyze the evidence from Atlanta to show why black opportunity deteriorated over the 1980s and outline possible remedies for the damage inflicted by the Reagan and Bush administrations. "The Closing Door is a crucial breath of fresh air . . . an important and timely text which will help to alter the 'underclass' debate in favor of reconsidering race-specific policies. Orfield and Ashkinaze construct a convincing argument with which those who favor 'race-neutrality' will have to contend. In readable prose they make a compelling case that economic growth is not enough."—Preston H. Smith II, Transition |
المحتوى
Going Backward | 1 |
Shattered Dreams | 28 |
Economic Boom and Growing Inequality | 45 |
Housing and Opportunity | 69 |
High School | 103 |
Declining Black Access to College | 149 |
Job Training | 174 |
An Agenda for Urban Racial Equality | 205 |
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achievement administration Atlanta area Atlanta Constitution Atlanta metropolitan area Atlanta Public Schools Atlanta Regional Commission average black and white black colleges black community black families black male black middle class black students black suburban boom city of Atlanta city schools city's civil rights Clayton County color line conservative costs court declining DeKalb County desegregation discrimination dropout rates economic employment enrollment federal four-year Fulton Fulton County Gary Orfield Georgia Georgia State University ghetto grade growth Gwinnett County high school graduates higher education homeownership housing market income increased inequality inner-city institutions job training JTPA labor market lanta metro Atlanta metropolitan area metropolitan Atlanta middle-class minority neighborhoods number of black participants percentage placement political poor blacks population poverty problems race racial Reagan reported residential school district segregation social subsidized housing suburban schools suburbs test scores tion training programs trends urban young black youth