D. B. Wilson -- Baltimore : from factory town to city in decline -- Big Floyd -- Intersections of poverty, race, and gender in the American ghetto -- Shaping the inner city : urban development and the American state -- Distorted engagement and liminal institutions : ruling against the poor -- Little Floyd -- Down the rabbit hole : childhood agency and the problem with liminality -- Clarise -- Paradoxes of social capital : constructing meaning, recasting culture -- Towanda -- Cultural capital and the transition to adulthood in the urban ghetto -- Lydia -- Faith and circumstance in West Baltimore -- Manny man -- Divided entrepreneurship and neighborhood effects -- Conclusion : distorted engagement and the great ideological divide.