- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
- 1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality
- 2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality
- 3 Measuring Poverty
- 4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty
- 5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States
- 6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America
- 7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring
- 8 The Demise of a Dinosaur
- 9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts
- 10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s
- 11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration
- 12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty
- 13 U.S. Education and Training Policy
- 14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
- 15 Escalating Differences and Elusive “Skills”
- 16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty
- 17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility
- 18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It?
- 19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States
- 20 How Much More Can They Work?
- 21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal
- 22 Fighting Poverty
- 23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship
- 24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code
- 25 Minority Business Development Programs
- 26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven
- Contributors
- Index
Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
- Source:
- Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy
- Author(s):
C. Michael Henry
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This introductory chapter focuses on the period of 1865 and 1970 to examine the historical factors that explain race and poverty amongst African Americans. These factors include economic stagnation and retrogression, educational failure, employment discrimination, labor market discrimination, union barriers to employment, housing segregation, and black poverty. It also discusses anti-poverty policy and addresses the pecuniary costs of segregation and discrimination and human costs of the antiblack violence and white antipathy between 1866 and 1943.
Keywords: race, poverty, economic stagnation, educational failure, employment discrimination, housing segregation, black poverty, anti-poverty, antiblack violence, white antipathy
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Editor's Preface
- Introduction: Historical Overview of Race and Poverty from Reconstruction to 1969
- 1 From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality
- 2 Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality
- 3 Measuring Poverty
- 4 Medical Spending, Health Insurance, and Measurement of American Poverty
- 5 The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States
- 6 The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America
- 7 The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring
- 8 The Demise of a Dinosaur
- 9 Suburban Exclusion and the Courts
- 10 Civil Rights and the Status of Black Americans in the 1960s and the 1990s
- 11 Poverty, Racism, and Migration
- 12 The American News Media and Public Misperceptions of Race and Poverty
- 13 U.S. Education and Training Policy
- 14 The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
- 15 Escalating Differences and Elusive “Skills”
- 16 Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty
- 17 Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility
- 18 Where Should Teen Mothers Live? What Should We Do About It?
- 19 Family Allowances and Poverty Among Lone Mother Families in the United States
- 20 How Much More Can They Work?
- 21 Turning Our Backs on the New Deal
- 22 Fighting Poverty
- 23 Crime, Poverty, and Entrepreneurship
- 24 Violence and the Inner-City Street Code
- 25 Minority Business Development Programs
- 26 A Social Accounting Matrix Model of Inner-City New Haven
- Contributors
- Index
