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Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America

Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America

Austin, Algernon

Paperback

Black American Studies

Publisher Price: $12.95

ISBN10: 059538594X
ISBN13: 9780595385942
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: May 16 2006
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Black public intellectuals, from liberal to conservative, are all talking about how black America is degenerating culturally. But there is little concrete evidence for this conclusion. In most areas of life, black Americans have made significant positive progress since the Civil Rights era.

Blacks are still economically worse off than whites, but black poverty has declined and the black middle class has grown since the 1960s. More blacks graduate from college today than ever before. Black communities are much safer now than during the peak crack epidemic years of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The blackteenage pregnancy rate has fallen dramatically since the 1960s. All of these facts contradict the assertions of black cultural decline.

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