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On the Edge:

A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams
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BasicBooks, Dec 14, 1994 - Social Science - 254 pages
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.

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About the author (1994)

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

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