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Christopher Jencks • 100 Items / 8 Books, 65 Articles, 27 Reviews
The Urban Underclass (1991)
by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson
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    When You're a Ghetto Child (Review)
    Karl Zinsmeister
    The Urban Underclass, by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson
    1. The Urban Underclass by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson
    Reason, November 1991, pp. 58-60
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    Always Among Us (2 Reviews)
    Lawrence M. Mead
    The Urban Underclass, by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson
    1. The Urban Underclass by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson
    2. Inner-city Poverty in the United States by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. and Michael H. McGeary
    First Things, December 1991, pp. 49-50
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    American Politics (3 Reviews)
    Jennifer L. Hochschild
    Rethinking Social Policy, by Christopher Jencks
    1. Rethinking Social Policy by Christopher Jencks
    2. The Urban Underclass by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson
    3. The New Politics of Poverty by Lawrence M. Mead
    American Political Science Review, March 1993, pp. 216-217
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    Playing the Racial Card (4 Reviews)
    Andrew Hacker
    Chain Reaction, by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall
    1. Chain Reaction by Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary D. Edsall
    2. The Urban Underclass by Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson
    3. Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby by Stephen L. Carter
    4. The Disuniting of America by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
    The New York Review of Books, October 24, 1991, pp. 14-18