Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (Legacies of Social Thought)

by WilliamJuliusWilson (Author), Charles C . Lemert (Author), ElliotLiebow (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $30.34

  The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis-that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior-and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families.