SWMS 210mgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Condom, Welfare Reform, Premarital Sex
Document Summary
Moyers 1986 report: the vanishing family: crisis in black america. Nearly 60% of black children are born out of wedlock, values are being turned upside down . Obama: fatherhood isn"t about being able to make children, manhood is about also raising children. Edin and nelson: studying inner-city fatherhood to tell the father"s story, which has not been understood as much as the children and women"s pov. Poverty: trash is strewn on the streets, public sanitation services don"t step in to help. Living spaces: boarded up windows, overgrown backyards, wire fences. Homes: row houses and twins, public housing complexes. Housing projects: magnifying racial segregation, mostly housing families of color (black) Particular neighborhoods are racially segregated, but study covers roughly half and half white and black men (share socioeconomic class) Steel belt: new york, ohio, west virginia, illinois, michigan in the north. Philadelphia: at the heart of the industrial revolution. Housing segregation, black women can only enter domestic jobs, job shortages.
