Where:
The Grove Hall Public Library
41 Geneva Avenue
Dorchester, Ma 02121
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
[email protected]
Why do American ghettos persist? Decades after Moynihan’s report on the black family and the Kerner Commission’s investigations of urban disorders, deeply disadvantaged black communities remain a disturbing reality. Scholars and commentators today often identify some factor—such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime—as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to “fix” ghettos or “help” their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice. (As appears on the Harvard University Press website)
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