Writing the Urban Discourse into the Black Ghetto Imaginary: Louise Meriwether's "Daddy Was a Number Runner"

Since the 1960$ black ghettos have become the subject of serious sociological research that analyzes inner-city communities in close scrutiny.2 The sociopolitical and ideological constructs that caused the spatial isolation of black Americans were achieved by "a conjunction of racist attitudes,...

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Published in:	The Southern literary journal 2006-09, Vol.39 (1), p.71-82
Main Author:	Demirturk, E. Lale
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	African American culture African Americans Attitudes Behavior Blacks Cities Ghettos Human rights Ideology Inner cities Jewish ghettos Literary criticism Novels Pathology Police brutality Political discourse Poverty Race Racism Role models Social aspects Society Socioeconomic factors Studies Unemployment Urban areas Urban space Welfare
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