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_nisha_singh 's review for:
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
by Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton
I mean, hard to rate what is considered a seminal work in urban inequality but I was assigned part of it for a class and read the rest on my own time so it was readable and easy to follow despite its inclusion of quantitative studies/analysis. From class I knew that this is often read in comparison to William Julius Wilson or specifically The Truly Disadvantaged so that may also add to the reading experience and better frame the argument if it feels too “obvious” an argument for an entire books worth of content, as some other reviews suggest. I took off a star because I thought the Public Policy chapter was a little wanting in terms of suggestions for the future besides “dismantling residential segregation” but perhaps that isn’t fair. Recommend as a basic, foundational read on racial inequality and concentrated poverty in the US!