Social Powerlessness in the Negro Ghetto

Any new book on urban Negro problems risks being familiar, despite Kenneth Clark’s assertion that there is no comprehensive study focusing exclusively on the Negro racial ghetto. Ghetto conditions such as housing decay, illegitimacy, narcotics addiction, massive unemployment, inferior schools, and political impotence have been aired and considered. Fresh insights into the ghetto predicament, while always welcome, become truly meaningful when related to fresh proposals for changing the p...