59 percent of African American households in Maryland in 2009 consist of only one parent. Both the author and the other Wes grew up without a father figure. Graduation rate of 66.7 percent for Baltimore City Schools
“The black family in the age of mass incarceration,” author Ta-Nehisi Coates toss back on the attempt of “The Negros family”, report by the American politician and sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s have benefactor to reduce America’s mass detainment, bringing about a country with the world’s biggest jail populace and the largest rate of detainment. In this article, he explained about the difficulties of black families about the racism that have continually arisen in times gone by to present day. Moynihan, who was brought up from a broken home and pathological family, had polite intrusion when he wrote the article “The Negros family.” His article argued that the government has disparaged the damage caused to the black family from past few centuries.
(Maynard, 2017, P.22) Baby. In order to maintain the social norms and the hierarchy system, the babies are removed from the mothers and are sent away. The removal of children demonstrates the consequences against norms and the dehumanization of the black population. In addition, social control was used to maintain social status.
There are plenty of black men that have problems with the way society view and treat them. In the essay Black Men and Public Space, the author Brent Staples expressed how black men were perceived in the public’s eyes. He expressed this problem by giving examples of how a young man was perceived. Some of the solutions did not really solve the problem in general, but helped to change the mindset of those surrounding him.
Overall, “Black Men in Public Space” proved to be more successful in conveying its message clearly and concisely, stemming from Staples’ manipulation of rhetorical devices and tone. It is apparent from reading both essays that the authors' purposes for writing their pieces are to inform readers of deeply rooted problems in society and the consequences of those problems on the people they affect. Staples explains in “Black Men in Public Space” how the unjust perception of black men as threats has not only pervaded society but also has caused an irrational fear of them. Staples writes to show
Social Group: Fathers During this time period, fathers were the “breadwinners” and expected to work and provide for their families. However, black fathers in the 1950’s particular had to work long hours because the only jobs available to them were often low paying. This directly correlates with African-American’s low place on the social ladder during this pre-Civil Rights era. It was also extremely difficult for African-American women to find work during this time, placing the financial buren solely on the father.
In the chapter entitled: " Black Men: How to perpetuate prejudice without really trying" several myths are disputed with statistics. Black men are far more likely to be the victims of crime than whites, as well as dying in violent crime at a much higher rate. They have had a dramatic spike in the teen suicide rate, and face much higher disease rates in the community. All these facts are hidden by the media and society in general because they are considered to be too common. Barry Glassner is a Sociology professor at the University of Southern California.
Normally, the more educated the lady, the more probable she is to wed. Yet, a school taught black lady is not any more liable to have a spouse than a poor Caucasian lady with scarcely a secondary school certificate. With regards to shaping a family, black ladies are not profiting from cutting edge training — nor are they passing those advantages onto the cutting edge. His contentions lie in the sexual orientation unevenness inside of the African American group — where two African American females move on from school for each one African American male. In spite of this irregularity, there is still huge social weight on dark ladies to just marry black men — to "support" the race and manufacture solid black families.
Likewise, the value of male dominance in both the Hispanic and Asian roots can create child neglect for the female children in which they may not be provide with the best basic resources like the male child. And the value system of the African American children to assume so much responsibility has often been construed by white child welfare agencies as constituting neglect on the part of their parents (Crosson-Tower, 2013,
President Obama is a black man making an extremely strong point there but he is not defending the non-successful black men. Instead he is blaming black fathers for
Michelle Alexander, similarly, points out the same truth that African American men are targeted substantially by the criminal justice system due to the long history leading to racial bias and mass incarceration within her text “The New Jim Crow”. Both Martin Luther King Jr.’s and Michelle Alexander’s text exhibit the brutality and social injustice that the African American community experiences, which ultimately expedites the mass incarceration of African American men, reflecting the current flawed prison system in the U.S. The American prison system is flawed in numerous ways as both King and Alexander points out. A significant flaw that was identified is the injustice of specifically targeting African American men for crimes due to the racial stereotypes formed as a result of racial formation. Racial formation is the accumulation of racial identities and categories that are formed, reconstructed, and abrogated throughout history.
There are many open wounds in the African-American community that have not healed what so ever. Disintegration of family structures in the African-American community has been a persistent problem for far too long. High out of wedlock birth rates, absent fathers, and the lack of a family support network for many young African-Americans have led to serious problems in America's urban areas. The persistence of serious social problems in inner-city areas has led to a tragic perpetuation of racial prejudice as well. African Americans still face a litany of problems in the 21st century today.
Vonnie McLoyd discusses in the book Child Development that black families are more likely to face poverty in America and the effects that poverty has on those children. McLoyd states that children that have faced poverty in their lives can have “impaired socioemotional functioning” (McLoyd 311). As a result from job loss creating parental stress, parents often become
Fatherless Children are Destined for Doom Fatherless: having no father because he is dead or absent from the home. Fatherlessness is becoming a natural thing for many children in the United States; this is not okay. Fatherlessness leads to gang association, drug/alcohol intake, young pregnancies, violence, and dropping out of school. If women would wait for decent men and get married first, and men would get married first and take roles in their children’s lives many of these issues would resolve themselves. Many of these things can be avoided if you wait for a committed man.
Being a daughter in the family with separated parents is one hell of a kind. In today's generation, many children or teens is living today with just having one parent. It's either their mother or they father. Sometimes it is their mother who works, who do household chores, who gives their love and attention either way. But how can separated parents affect their child?
