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The stories in Wegner's 'Love is Not a Dirty Word' drive home just how human humans are. The characters often exhibit weakness, misperception, lack of self-knowledge, and even, at times, meanness, but in the end they are always, without a doubt, completely and totally human, with fundamental human characteristics that redeem them. They are for the most part blue collar, kids and teens and adults not at the bottom, but certainly in the bottom half, of our culture's socioeconomic structure, but their struggles drive home the undeniable fact that ultimately we're all the same in our conflicts,...

Precise connections between race, poverty, and the condition of America's cities are drawn in this collection of seventeen essays. Policymakers and scholars from a variety of disciplines analyze the plight of the urban poor since the riots of the 1960s and the resulting 1968 Kerner Commission Report on the status of African Americans. In essays addressing health care, education, welfare, and housing policies, the contributors reassess the findings of the report in light of developments over the last thirty years, including the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Some argue that the long-standing...