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Terry Williams

About the Author

Sociologist Terry Williams, Ph.D., coauthor of Growing Up Poor, is the joint recipient of a MacArthur foundation grant to study the culture of housing projects. The completion of The Cocaine Kids was accomplished during Williams’s appointment at the Conservation of Human Resources at Columbia University.

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