title: Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
author:  Patrick Sharkey 
description: <DIV><P>&quot;Patrick&#160;Sharkey's <I>Stuck in Place</I> is one of those rare books that will become a standard reference for students and scholars of inequality.&#160;Examining longitudinal data over a period of four decades, Sharkey provides compelling arguments on how inequality clustered in a social setting can be addressed with a durable urban policy agenda. This important and incredibly perceptive book is a must-read.&quot;</P></DIV> (William Julius Wilson <i>author of The Truly Disadvantaged and The Declining Significance of Race</i>)<br /><br /><DIV>"Sharkeys book is magnificent scholarship."</DIV> (<i>American Prospect</i>)<br /><br /><DIV>&quot;<I>Stuck in Place</I> is a powerful analysis of how neighborhoods are implicated in perpetuating severe stratification between blacks and whites across generations. Patrick Sharkey&rsquo;s robust findings are sobering and disturbing&mdash;even for experts in the field&mdash;and leave no room for debate about the need for massive investment in America&rsquo;s poorest neighborhoods. Like <I>The Truly Disadvantaged</I> and <I>American Apartheid</I> before it, this book will be impossible to ignore and will set the agenda for decades to come.&quot;</DIV><BR> (Mary Pattillo <i>author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City</i>)<br /><br /><DIV><I>"</I>Patrick Sharkey&#8217;s comprehensive and compelling analysis clearly explains how segregation, by concentrating disadvantage in black neighborhoods, continues to divide US society into divergent black and white social worlds that remain truly separate and unequal, decades after the Civil Rights Era. His work eloquently reminds us that a segregated society can never be a just society, and that segregation remains at the core the American dilemma, even in the Age of Obama."</DIV> (Douglas S. Massey <i>coauthor of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass</i>)
zlib_text: Stuck in Place
  
  Stuck in Place
  Urban Neighborhoods 
  and the End of Progress 
  toward Racial Equality
  PATRICK SHARKEY
  the university of chicago press
  Chicago and London
  
  Patrick Sharkey is 
  associate professor 
  of sociology at New 
  York University and 
  an afﬁ liated member 
  of the faculty at the 
  Robert F. Wagner 
  School for Public 
  Service.
  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
  The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
  © 2013 by The University of Chicago
  All rights reserved.  Published 2013.
  Printed in the United States of America.
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  isbn-13: 978-0-226-92424-3 (cloth)
  isbn-13: 978-0-226-92425-0 (paper)
  isbn-13: 978-0-226-92426-7 (e-book)
  isbn-10: 0-226-92424-6 (cloth)
  isbn-10: 0-226-92425-4 (paper)
  isbn-10: 0-226-92426-2 (e-book)
  Library of Congress-in-Publication Data
  Sharkey, Patrick
   Stuck in place : urban neighborhoods and the end of progress 
  toward racial equality / by Patrick Sharkey.
     pages ; cm
   Includes bibliographical references