| A Way Out: America''s Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism Subjects: Social problems -- United States; Inner cities -- Government policy -- United States; Urban poor -- Government policy -- United States; Occupational mobility -- United States; After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether or not ghettos are dysfunctional communities that exacerbate poverty, and beyond modest proposals to ameliorate their problems, one of America's leading experts on civil rights gives us a stunning but commonsensical solution: give residents the means to leave. Owen Fiss is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University. His books include The Irony of Free Speech, Liberalism Divided , and The Civil Rights Injunction . Joshua Cohen is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at MIT. He is Editor of Boston Review . Jefferson Decker , a former managing editor of Boston Review , is a graduate student in U.S. History at Columbia University. Joel Rogers is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and founder and director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS). |