Foreword
1 Introduction: Inner-City Isolation and Opportunity
George E. Peterson and Adele V Harrell
2 Black Philadelphia Then and Now: The "Underclass" of the Late 20th Century Compared with Poorer African-Americans of the Late 19th Century
Roger Lane
3 The Severely Distressed in Economically Transforming Cities John D. Kasarda
4 Drug Selling and Licit Income in Distressed Neighborhoods: The Economic Lives of Street-Level Drug Users and Dealers Jeffrey Fagan
5 The Story of John Thrner Elijah Anderson
6 Impact of Drugs on Family Life and Kin Networks in the Inner-City African-American Single-Parent Household Eloise Dunlap
7 Drugs and Patterns of Opportunity in the Inner City:The Case of Middle-Aged, Middle-Income Cocaine Smokers Ansley Hamid
8 Mobility Into and Out of Poor Urban Neighborhoods Edward Gramlich, Deborah Laren, and Naomi Sealand
9 Social Isolation and the Underclass Roberto Fernandez and David Harris
About the Editors
About the Contributors
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