ISBN:
0195100786
Language:
English
Pages:
XXVIII, 251 S.
,
graph. Darst.
DDC:
306.8508996073
Keywords:
Eenoudergezinnen
;
Negers
;
Geschichte
;
Schwarze
;
African American families History
;
Fatherless families History
;
Poverty
;
Single-parent families History
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Schwarze
;
Familienstruktur
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Familienstruktur
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Schwarze
Abstract:
In Ensuring Inequality, Franklin traces the evolution of the black family from slavery to the present, showing the cumulative effects of centuries of historical change. She begins with a richly researched account of the impact of slavery on the black family, finding that slavery not only caused extreme instability and suffering for families, but established a lasting pattern of poverty which made the economic advantages of marriage unattainable. She provides a sharp critique of the policies of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction, and demonstrates the mixed impact of the new pattern of sharecropping
Abstract:
Franklin brings her comprehensive, nuanced study right up to the present, showing the impact on the urban poor of changes in the economy and society, from the dramatically shrinking pool of good jobs to the rise of the new right. "The increasing reliance on welfare by young black mothers," she writes, "corresponded to the erosion of opportunities for young black males." More important, she offers new approaches to solving the crisis. Not only does she recommend federal intervention to create new economic opportunity in urban ghettos, but she also stresses the importance of black self-help and proposes a plan of action. In addition, she outlines social interventions that can stabilize and strengthen poor, mother-only families living in ghetto neighborhoods. Exhaustively researched and insightfully written, Ensuring Inequality makes an important contribution to the central debate in American politics today
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