Class 6 Flashcards
African American Men’s Groups
- Initiate service projects to help improve the economic and social plights of deprived children and families
- Black Masons have a long history of this
- 100 Committed Black Men
- The Elks
- Male Afrocentric Rites of Passage Programs
- African American Church Groups
Majors: To empower and save black males in the country, what must we do?
- Develop comprehensive policies and programs designed to address causes rather than symptoms. Policies that focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shape the lives of black males.
- Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood In America… Useful analysis of gender roles, values, self presentation, situational constructed and performance oriented behaviors, scripts and physical posturing.
- The book contributes to understanding, how and why black males become involved in risk-taking and self destructive behaviors
Economic-Labor force participation
- The unemployment rate for black men for the last ten years have been twice that of white men
- Poor families are slipping deeper into poverty
- Those who believed that immigrants were taking away jobs, they pointed the blame to white for this happening and not the immigrant groups
- Good news: blacks own some of nations firms
- Blacks contribute up to 20% of new entrants to the labor force
Education
•Cities with over 90% African American students
- Atlanta
- Detroit
- Washington D.C.
- Approximately 88% finish high school
- Percentage of AA WOMEN enrolled in college has increased by 16% and decreased for AA MEN by 14%
School Enrollment
1990s
- From 1980-90 black graduate student enrollment has decreased from 6.4% to 6% but in 2009-10 increased approximately 0.3%
- 1990 BA’s almost a 30% drop, MA’s a 33% drop
- PhD’s 37% drop (today MA & PhD has more than doubled since the 1990’s
School Enrollment
SINCE 90s
- Currently approximately 1/3 are enrolled in college
- 2/3 of black college graduates are women
- at MSU, 2007 had highest percentage enrolled
Gender Issues: education
•Black women 35-54, with 5 or more yrs of college, never married, chances are 100/0-1
-Example: in particular category, 15,000 black women and 499 black males
•97% black women marry within ethnic groups
Physical Health
- Blacks have difficult utilization patterns
- Blacks enter the Health care system later than whites
- Often sicker on entry and therefore stay longer once they get there
- Over utilization of emergency care, possibly linked to crisis oriented and treatment as well as barriers to service utilization resulting in delayed treatment
Racial Discrimination and physical health
- Blacks who perceive discrimination may develop low levels of life satisfaction and personal happiness
- Environmental stressors could invoke intermediate physical responses, i.e. high blood pressure
- Empirical research literature on this relationship between discrimination and health among black are growing i.e. 6 studies showed a relationship, 3 showed mixed results depending coping style of the blacks in the study
Religious Involvement
- Demonstrate higher levels of both public (attendance) and private (prayers, readings, listening to programs, etc.) religious behaviors
- Are more likely to endorse positive statements/attitudes that reflect the strength of persona; religious commitment
•Women seek the help of clergy more than men
-Helps with rearing of children-mostly sons
AA Muslims (share same faith as immigrant Muslims)
•Teaching of Islam especially in family life
•Clearly defined roles for men and women and children and parents
•Many AA are converts
1. Adopt name
2. Style of dress/clothing
3. Consciousness
Hip-Hoppers and their connections to social and political issues
- Often center of social action efforts
- Firmly connected to AA community’s tradition of resistance
- Often to educate, organize, and mobilize their peers around issues of concern and importance
- Controversy exists due to a diverse Hip Hop community
William Wilson: the declining significance of race in society
- He asserts that race is declining in significance what has become of fundamental importance instead is economic class
- He believes there are new barriers to achievement and equality which emerged from basic structural shifts in the economy
- As a result obstacles are now impersonal but formidable, particularly to those in the underclass
