Table of Contents
Introduction. Social policy and the minority experience / Gary D. Sandefur and Marta Tienda -- Poverty and minorities : a quarter-century profile of color and socioeconomic disadvantage / Marta Tienda and Leif Jensen -- Minorities in the labor market : cyclical patterns and secular trends in joblessness / Charles Hirschman -- Minorities and homelessness / Peter H. Rossi -- Poverty and immigration in the United States : 1960-1980 / Leif Jensen -- Poverty and the family / James P. Smith -- Ethnic and racial patterns of educational attainment and school enrollment / Robert D. Mare and Christopher Winship -- The duality in federal policy toward minority groups, 1787-1987 / Gary D. Sandefur -- Social policy and minority groups : what might have been and what might we see in the future? / William Julius Wilson -- Social responsibility and minority poverty : a response to William Julius Wilson / Lawrence M. Mead -- Epilogue / Gary D. Sandefur and Marta Tienda.