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Jun 13, 2021
Essential reading to understand the trajectory of black America
Amazing book. This analysis helps bridge the gap between the classical left and right arguments over the issue of black underachievement in America.
The classical progressive argument focuses heavily on the role of racism and societal oppression in the poor life outcomes of blacks in America, classic conservative arguments place the onus on individuals to correct their cultural values and choose to work instead of subsisting off of crime or welfare. These arguments are attempts at explaining the confusing fact that black American's employment and family prospects severely worsened in the decades following what should have been the dawn of a new age of prosperity, the passing of the Civil Rights Act and the abolition of Jim Crow.
William Julius Wilson examines the critical element of changing macroeconomic trends throughout the middle 20th century. As an unprecedented number of blacks were migrating to northern cities while low skill working class manufacturing jobs were rapidly moving out to the suburbs and eventually out of the country. As the number of "marriageable" black men declined due to increased joblessness, there was a rise in female-headed families within the black underclass, and an increase in family dislocation. More young black Americans in the inner-cities were unable to get on the bottom rung of the labor force, and effectively stalled out. Those black Americans who had the means and education either left to the suburbs themselves, or took service-sector jobs in the more affluent parts of the city.
This process left black inner-city communities spiraling as stable working and middle-class families left and the social fabric eroded. Wilson recommends universal education and job training programs that target all members of the "underclass", whether white or black, as the policy prescription. Anyone who has read "Deaths of Despair" by Anne Case and Angus Deaton will recognize that the trends outlined here by Wilson as having decimated the black working class community in the latter half of the 20th century are rapidly catching up to white working class Americans in the 21st century.
In sum, this book is still relevant today and paints a nuanced, high-level picture without getting bogged down in progressive/conservative tropes.
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