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De-Concentrating Poverty: De-Constructing A Theory And The Failure Of Hope, Michael R. Diamond
De-Concentrating Poverty: De-Constructing A Theory And The Failure Of Hope, Michael R. Diamond
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Since the late 1980s, led by William Julius Wilson’s The Truly Disadvantaged, scholars have been writing about the social problems caused by the concentration in residential communities of high levels of poverty. Even before Wilson’s book, government policy, which previously had resulted in racially and economically segregated communities, had begun to shift towards de-concentration. The consent decree in Hills v Gautreaux, and the HOPE VI and Moving to Opportunity Programs all pointed towards de-concentration of poverty. Commentators have suggested both benign and not-so-benign reasons for the policy shift.
There were a variety of quite hopeful goals promoted by …
Whatever, Girardeau A. Spann
Whatever, Girardeau A. Spann
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The author cannot say that she disagrees with any of the analytical observations made by her co-contributors to this roundtable discussion of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. They all agree that the Supreme Court plans to use the case as an occasion to do something noteworthy to the constitutionality of affirmative action. And they all agree that the Court’s actions are likely to provide more comfort to opponents than to proponents of racial diversity. Their views diverge only with respect to doctrinal details about what the Court could or should do. But in translating the racial tensions …