About the Book

On the Edge

On the Edge

A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams
Carl H Nightingale (Author)
January 1995
Trade Paperback · 288 Pages
$14.50 U.S. · $17.50 CAN · £9.99 U.K. · €10.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780465052196
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Description

Filled with fascinating insights into the collective emotional life of inner-city kids, this book is also a highly original history of the erosion of urban community life since World War II.

About the Author

Carl Husemoller Nightingale is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.