An empirical assessment of four perspectives on the declining fortunes of the African-American male

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 695-716

  Johnson Jr , James H ^a,b   Farrell Jr , Walter C ^a,b   Stoloff, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN SOCIETY;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034073560     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/10780870022184606     Document Type: Article

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