Introduction / Clement Cottingham

Paradigms, politics, and policies : notes on social science and the city / Amy Bridges and Kenneth Finegold

Poverty and profit in urban growth and decline / William W. Goldsmith

Neighborhood self help : policy and program implications for inner city neighborhoods / Dolores G. Norton and Edwina Andrews

The environment : an issue that minorities and the poor no longer can ignore / Inez Smith Reid

Race-oriented programs and the Black underclass / William Julius Wilson

Economists, the minimum wage, and the underclass / William A. Darity, Jr.

Internal labor markets and Black suburbanization / Bruce B. Williams

Conclusion : the political economy of urban poverty / Clement Cottingham.

African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-

Poor > United States.

United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980.

United States > Economic conditions > 1961-1971.