Inner cities
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Whoreson
Poverty, ethnicity, and the American city, 1840-1925
Bang!
Magical urbanism
Whore
Ghetto girls
A beautiful ghetto
The rough road to renaissance
Ten Indians
Environmentally devastated neighborhoods
Code of the Street
No Place
Junebug
Bad Girlz 4 Life
Girls From Da Hood
Begging for Change
The livable city
No shame in my game
More than just race
Bang!
Behind ghetto walls
The reckoning
The general theory of employment, interest and money
When Work Disappears
Cities and race
Inner-city poverty
Babylon Boyz
Ice Cream for Freaks
Black ghettos, white ghettos, and slums
Violence and Childhood in the Inner City (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)
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