The hero's fight : African Americans in West Baltimore and the shadow of the state / Patricia Fernández-Kelly.

The hero's fight : African Americans in West Baltimore and the shadow of the state / Patricia Fernández-Kelly.

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Main Author: Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
©2015.
Subjects:
Urban poor > Maryland > Baltimore.
African Americans > Maryland > Baltimore > Social conditions.
Deindustrialization > Maryland > Baltimore.
Baltimore (Md.) > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • D. B. Wilson
  • Baltimore : from factory town to city in decline
  • Big Floyd
  • Intersections of poverty, race, and gender in the American ghetto
  • Shaping the inner city : urban development and the American state
  • Distorted engagement and liminal institutions : ruling against the poor
  • Little Floyd
  • Down the rabbit hole : childhood agency and the problem with liminality
  • Clarise
  • Paradoxes of social capital : constructing meaning, recasting culture
  • Towanda
  • Cultural capital and the transition to adulthood in the urban ghetto
  • Lydia
  • Faith and circumstance in West Baltimore
  • Manny man
  • Divided entrepreneurship and neighborhood effects
  • Conclusion : distorted engagement and the great ideological divide.

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