Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

Kenneth B. Clark

What do the facts of life in Harlem reveal about the truth of ghettos, and about powerlessness everywhere?

At a glance

You will learn to separate fact from truth, since the same delinquency figures can be read with hope or with despair
You will notice how statistics can be handled to avoid personal pain, unlike a direct meeting with a starving child
You will see why confinement in a ghetto differs from ordinary poverty, since poor whites believe they can escape while black residents usually cannot