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A Collective Responsibility: A Collective Work
Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt |
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Young people in poor communities are living in a state of distress. To bring focus to this deleterious situation, data from 10 communities across the country will be used to highlight the magnitude of the challenges faced by youth growing up in these cities. Cities were selected based upon their graduation rates (less than 60 percent) and their rates of child poverty (greater than 30 percent). The 10 cities highlighted in this paper are: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Oakland, and Philadelphia.
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Given Half a Chance: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males
Schott Foundation |
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In 2003, The Schott Foundation for Public Education, under the leadership of my predecessor, Dr. Rosa Smith, and researcher Michael Holzman, began an intense investigation into the educational performance of Black males across the
nation. The results were alarming and served to alert the advocacy, research, and philanthropic communities of an American crisis.
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Coming Out from Under the Ethnographic Interview
Alford A. Young, Jr. |
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In the most simple terms, I interview people about their life experiences, their visions of self, and their visions of particular features of the social world in order to gain some purchase on their "common-sense" understandings about these matters.
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Breaking Barriers - Plotting the Path to Academic Success
Congressional Black Caucus Fund |
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A summary of the soon-to-be-released report from the Congressional Black Caucus Fund titled, "Breaking Barriers - Plotting the Path to Academic Success for School-Age African-American Males." The full report will be released in mid-July, and can be found at cbcfinc.org
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A Positive Future for Black Boys: Building the Movement
Schott Foundation |
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The situation of Black boys sets the floor in public education and indicates the quality of education available to all other groups of students as well. The Foundation operates on the theory that improving educational outcomes for Black boys will also lead to improvements for other groups, which is what Schott found in their search for high schools with exemplary four year graduation rates for African American male students.
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Good News! Black College Graduates Continue
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education |
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Good news! Black college graduates continue to close the racial unemployment gap.
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Declining Employment among Young Black Less-Educated Men: The Role of Incarceration and Child Support
Harry J. Holzer, Paul Offner, Elaine Sorensen |
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In this paper, we document the continuing decline in employment and labor force participation of black men between the ages of 16 and 34 who have a high school education or less. We explore the extent to which these trends can be accounted for in recent years by two fairly new developments: (1) The dramatic growth in the number of young black men who have been incarcerated; and (2) Strengthened enforcement of child support policies.
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Men and Communities: African American Males and the Well-Being of Children, Families, and Neighborhoods
James B. Hyman |
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This report focuses on well-being outcomes in urban, poor, and minority communities, particularly African American communities. Throughout this discussion, the analysis will be applied to black men. That said, much of the proposed framework can be applied to men in general, although admittedly, references to culture and race will need to be modified to consider the identity and experience of other groups of men in the context of their community identities, histories, and cultures.
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Men and Communities: African American Males and the Well-Being of Children, Families, and Neighborhoods
James B. Hyman |
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This report focuses on well-being outcomes in urban, poor, and minority communities, particularly African American communities. Throughout this discussion, the analysis will be applied to black men. That said, much of the proposed framework can be applied to men in general, although admittedly, references to culture and race will need to be modified to consider the identity and experience of other groups of men in the context of their community identities, histories, and cultures.
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Race, Ethnicity & Health Care
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation |
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This fact sheet, based largely on information collected from government sources such as the U.S. Census, National Vital Statistics System, and national surveys, examines the experiences of young African American men in education, employment, and the criminal justice system. It also compares how they fare in health coverage and health status with that of young men of other racial/ethnic groups.
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Black Barbershop
Dr. Bill Releford |
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The Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program is the first event of its kind in Los Angeles and will
address the growing concern of undetected cardiovascular disease in African American men.
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Men of Color In The Media
Robert M. Entman |
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The way the media operate, the images they produce, and the influence they exert significantly affect the life chances of young men of color. This report assesses the media’s impacts, with a particular focus on the variety of ways they perpetuate negative impressions of young men of color, the reasons that this perpetuation of negative impressions occurs, and potential paths to reform and improvement.
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Why We Can’t Wait A Case for Philanthropic Action: Opportunities for Improving Life Outcomes for African American Males
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Ford Foundation staff has initiated grant making to stimulate discourse about the confluence of gender and race as factors shaping the contours of opportunity. Across the Ford Foundation, staff working in diverse contexts and with various programmatic mandates are interrogating social marginalization rooted in intersections of gender, sexual and racial\ethnic oppression.
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Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System
House of Commons Home Affairs Committee |
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Our aim was to go beyond the statistics and establish whether patterns of criminal behaviour among young black people differ in any significant way from patterns of crime amongst other young people—and whether any significant policies are required to tackle this. The inquiry aimed to establish the full range of possible causes of young black people’s overrepresentation in the system.3 We were also keen to understand the nature and extent of overrepresentation of young black people as victims of some crimes.
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One in 100:Behind Bars in America 2008
The Pew Charitable Trusts |
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Three decades of growth in America’s prison population has quietly nudged the nation across a sobering threshold: for the first time, more than one in every 100 adults is now confined in an American jail or prison. According to figures gathered and analyzed by the Pew Public Safety Performance Project, the number of people behind bars in the United States continued to climb in 2007, saddling cash-strapped states with soaring costs they can ill afford and failing to have a clear impact either on recidivism or overall crime.
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A NEW GENERATIONOF NATIVE SONS: MEN OF COLOR AND THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
ADOLPHUS G. BELK, JR. |
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This paper evaluates the impact of the prison-industrial complex on males from communities of color. In
particular, it asks the following questions: What is the impact of the large increases in the proportion of state and local public funds dedicated to corrections? To what extent has the private corrections industry influenced and driven national, state, and local policy regarding criminal justice policy and programs?
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YOUNG MEN OF COLOR IN THE MEDIA: IMAGES AND IMPACTS
Robert M. Entman |
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Raised in a culture in which race and ethnicity are often highly salient and white persons occupy the top of the social hierarchy, whites who have only limited personal experience with YMC may be more likely to remember the negative than the positive in the media images they encounter. More generally, psychologists have found that people remember negative information more readily than positive information. Through their decisions regarding the images and information they include or omit, the media frequently encourage whites’ tendencies to imagine, exaggerate, and misunderstand group differences. This holds especially true for young men of color, who bear the triple burden of the cultural stereotypes and negative emotions attached to the categories of non-white,
young, and male. All of these complex and controversial issues must be radically simplified for the purposes of this report.
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A Way Out: Creating Partners for Our Nation's Propserity By Expanding LIfe Paths of Young Men Of Color.
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies |
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Drawing from the background papers and proceedings of the Dellums Commision's deliberations, this final report contains recommendations for public policy and includes specific actions that can improve life options for young men of color.
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