The Review of Black Political Economy articles from March 2000

The Review of Black Political Economy archives from March 2000

WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE? REVIEW ESSAY ON THOMAS SUGRUE'S THE ORIGINS OF THE URBAN CRISIS.
March 22, 2000... America's urban, racial crisis continues to inspire a steady stream of books, most often exploring its causes, sometimes offering solutions. Perhaps no book since William Wilson's The Truly Disadvantaged has attracted as much attention in...

BLACK TEEN CHILDBEARING: REEXAMINING THE SEGMENTED LABOR MARKET HYPOTHESIS.
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION The objective of this paper is to examine whether the racial difference in the proportion of women who become teenage mothers is related to differences in their labor market options and choices. Specifically, we test the...

RETURNING AFRICAN AMERICAN FARMERS TO THE LAND: RECENT TRENDS AND A POLICY RATIONALE [1].(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW OF THE DECLINE OF BLACK FARMERS Of all U.S. regions, the South always had the greatest number of farm residents until about the middle of this century (Banks and Kalbacher 1980). The loss of most of this farming...

INSIGHTS INTO THE WORK AND FAMILY LIVES OF AFRO-CARIBBEAN MIEN.
March 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION Based on his analysis of village life in British Guiana back in the 1950s, anthropologist Raymond T. Smith arrived at the conclusion that men's familial roles were "structurally marginal in the complex of domestic relations."...

THE STRENGTHS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER BY ROBERT B. HILL LANHAM, MD: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA (1999).(Review)
March 22, 2000... For almost 30 years, Robert B. Hill has been an unmovable buoy in the turbulent sea of scholarship exploring the structure, status, and functioning of black families. While others sought to submerge the black family under the weight of charges...

JOB CREATION, PROSPECTS AND STRATEGIES EDITED BY WILHELMINA A. LEIGH & MARGARET C. SIMMS, LANHAM, MD: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA, 1998.(Review)
March 22, 2000... [First volume in the series established by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies entitled The Black Worker in the 21st Century]. Public awareness of the remarkable record of job creation during the 1990s has increased...