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Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy

C. Henry

Abstract

What explains the continuing hardship of so many black Americans? In this book, a group of scholars analyzes the long, complex structural and environmental causes of discrimination and their effects on African-Americans. The chapter examines the impact of poverty, poor health, poor schools, poor housing, poor neighborhoods, and few job opportunities, and demonstrate how multiple causes reinforce each other and condemn African-Americans to positions of inferiority and poverty. Some of the chapters examine policies designed to correct problems, while others look at the changing racial and ethnic ... More

Keywords: black Americans, discrimination, African-Americans, poverty, health, schools, housing, ethnic composition, minorities

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2004 Print ISBN-13: 9780300095418
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300095418.001.0001

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C. Henry, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

[UNTITLED]

Dedication

Foreword

Editor's Preface

Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969

C. Michael Henry

Part I Economic Inequality and Income Inequality

1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality

Amartya K. Sen

2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality

William A. Darity, Jr.

Part II Issues in Measurement of Inequality and Poverty

3 Measuring Poverty

Daniel H. Weinberg

4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty

Gary Burtless AND Sarah Siegel

Part III Structural Causes of African American Poverty

5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States

Tukufu Zuberi

6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America

Douglas S. Massey

7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring

George Galster, Ronald Mincy, AND Mitch Tobin

Part IV Critical Factors Militating Against Black Progress: Retrospect and Prospect

8 The Demise of a Dinosaur

Jennifer Hochschild AND Michael N. Danielson

9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts

Gary Orfield

10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s

Reynolds Farley

11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration

David R. Williams

12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty

Martin Gilens

Part V The Differential Impact of Skills on Earnings

13 U.S. Education and Training Policy

James J. Heckman

14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination

Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, AND Frank Levy

15 Escalating Differences and Elusive “Skills”

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, AND Robert Szarka

16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty

Philip M. Gleason AND Glen G. Cain

Part VI Racial and Familial Hardship: Welfare Benefits and Welfare Reform

17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility

Arline T. Geronimus

18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It?

Harold Pollack

19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States

Cecilia A. Conrad

20 How Much More Can They Work?

Ladonna Pavetti

21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal

Jeffrey Lehman AND Sheldon Danziger

22 Fighting Poverty

Rebecca M. Blank

Part VII Communal Hardship in Black Residential Areas: Crime and Law Enforcement

23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship

Samuel L. Myers, Jr.

24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code

Elijah Anderson

Part VIII Economic Development of Black Communities

25 Minority Business Development Programs

Timothy Bates

26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven

C. Michael Henry

End Matter

Contributors

Index