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Why do American ghettos persist? Decades after Moynihan s report on the black family and the Kerner Commission s investigations of urban disorders, deeply disadvantaged black communities remain a disturbing reality. Scholars and commentators today often identify some factor such as single motherhood, joblessness, or violent street crime as the key to solving the problem and recommend policies accordingly. But, Tommie Shelby argues, these attempts to fix ghettos or help their poor inhabitants ignore fundamental questions of justice and fail to see the urban poor as moral agents responding to injustice.Drawing on liberal-egalitarian philosophy and informed by leading social science research, Dark Ghettos examines the thorny questions of political morality raised by ghettos. Should government foster integrated neighborhoods? If a culture of poverty exists, what interventions are justified? Should single parenthood be avoided or deterred? Is voluntary nonwork or crime an acceptable mode