4 edition of Are urban blacks healthy? found in the catalog.
Are urban blacks healthy?
C. Isaacson
Published
1984
by Witwatersrand University Press in Johannesburg
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Written in
Edition Notes
Cover title.
Statement | by Charles Isaacson. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | RA552.S6 I83 1984 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | 17 p. : |
Number of Pages | 17 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL2633902M |
ISBN 10 | 0854948341 |
LC Control Number | 85206375 |
OCLC/WorldCa | 16868467 |
The book presents a convincing analysis of why school integration policies limited to city boundaries do little to lift the prospects of poor urban blacks. Only policies such as the one carried out in Raleigh, North Carolina, which purposely merge city and suburban school districts, adequately improve education for poor kids. Further, poverty in rural counties of the country is greater than in metro or urban counties, compounding the problem of healthy food access. Specifically, the South (region of the country) holds the highest poverty gap between rural and urban counties while Blacks and American Indians in those communities have the highest incidence of poverty.
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