A review by hed5aya
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton

3.0

(2.7) The overall message of the book is a powerful one and how (white) America has segregated the poor and the rich and how it created the underclass. However, this book is very old and there are tons of better books on this subject that have done it better. I think for me the wording was very iffy, very outdated and borderline judgmental. Also I’m not sure in academia how the use of the n word goes (allowed or not) but a book with two white authors wrote it too much for me in my opinion. I was surprised there wasn’t much reviews on this but the reviews I saw explaining how amazing this book was doesn’t really surprise me.