Penn Prof Asks: Why Aren't American Cities Burning?

Philadelphia Weekly | November 23, 2011
Income inequality between blacks and whites has been widening since 1973. Segregation is more severe. Since all data reveals that the inequality that motivated riots of the 1960s and early 1970s has only gotten worse, why then, Michael Katz wonders, has no one lit the match?

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