Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many books is The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.
Prologue: The Death of ShortyChapter 1. What Is an American City?Chapter 2. The New African American InequalityChapter 3. Why Don't American Cities Burn Very Often?Chapter 4. From Underclass to Entrepreneur: New Technologies of Poverty Work in Urban AmericaEpilogue: The Existential Problem of Urban Studies