ISBN-13: 9780226730905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str.
From 1976 to 1998, the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program moved over 7,000 low-income black families from Chicago's inner city to middle-class white suburbs the largest and longest-running residential, racial, and economic integration effort in American history. "Crossing the Class and Color Lines" is the story of that project, from the initial struggles and discomfort of the relocated families to their eventual successes in employment and education cementing the sociological concept of the "neighborhood effect" and shattering the myth that inner-city blacks cannot escape a "culture of poverty."
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