Volume 34, Number 19 · December 3, 1987
American Apartheid
By Andrew Hacker
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America
by Reynolds Farley, by Walter R. Allen
Russell Sage Foundation, 493 pp., $37.50
Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change
by Marian Wright Edelman
Harvard University Press, 127 pp., $15.00
Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing
edited by Cheryl D. Haynes
National Academy Press, 337 pp., $21.95 (paper)
The New Black Middle Class
by Bart Landry
University of California Press, 250 pp., $22.50
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
by William Julius Wilson
University of Chicago Press, 254 pp., $19.95
The Economic Progress of Black Men in America
US Commission on Civil Rights
157 pp.
The State of Black America 1987
edited by Janet Dewart
National Urban League, 261 pp., $18.00 (paper)
USA vs. Starrett City Associates 660 Federal Supplement 668
("benign quotas") US District Court, Eastern District of New York
The statistics by themselves are dismaying: currently, more than 60 percent of black infants are born outside of wedlock; almost as many black families are headed by women, and the majority of black children live only with their mothers. These figures are three to five times those for white Americans, and at least three times the statistics for blacks of a generation ago. Since Daniel Patrick Moynihan released his famous report on The Negro Family almost a quarter-century ago, terms like 'breakdown' and 'crisis' have pervaded discussions of black domestic life.[1]
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