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Neighborhood Poverty and African American Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Cathy J. Cohen  and
Michael C. Dawson
Cathy J. Cohen
Affiliation:
Yale University
Michael C. Dawson
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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Abstract

William Wilson and other scholars argue that one of the attributes of devastated neighborhoods is social isolation. We shall explore whether neighborhoods that seem to indicate significant social isolation also foster political isolation. We begin our examination by providing a description of the poor in the samples from the 1989 Detroit Area Study. We then turn our attention toward analyzing the effects of neighborhood poverty on African–American public opinion and political participation. We conclude with a discussion of how neighborhood poverty affects African-American politics and the consequences of those politics for the theory and practice of American democracy.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 87 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 286 - 302
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1993

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