In the first chapter of the Moynihan Report the author covered the basis of a few topics related to the Negro Revolution. He talked about three events, which were labeled as political events, administrative events, and legal events. These three types of events all were a part of the onset of the Negro revolution. In the political events, the authors talked about how the Negros came together as a mass movement. The author described the organization to be more disciplined because of how they established close ties with religious groups which help maintain relationships with political parties and with segments of the trade union. The administrative events also came in threefold as well. The administrative events were summed up in the fact …show more content…
The family is supposed to shape character. How you should act when you’re an adult in society is learned as a child. The child learns a way of looking at life and it shapes how they will act as adults. People tend to think that family life is the same for everyone in American society. The white families have stability and maintain it but the family structure of lower class African Americans is unstable. There is evidence that the African American community is dividing into a stable middle class group and a disadvantaged lower class group. Almost a quarter of African American marriages don’t last. Almost a quarter of African American women who married are divorced, separated, or are not living with their husband. The rates are highest in the Northeast. Almost 1 quarter of African American births are illegitimate. Almost one fourth of African American families are headed by a woman. There has been an increase in welfare dependency. Most African American children receive public assistance under the AFDC program and 90% of ADC families are African …show more content…
They were taught to hate one another, which created self-hate that is now demonstrated in the Negro communities today. African Americans have adopted matriarchal structure during slavery, where the woman is dominant in the household. The Negro man was ripped away to work, leaving the woman to provide for home. The author is discussing the missing male at home, which is disadvantage to the minority group. The problem with the matriarchal structure is the African Americans are focusing on one principle, while the majority is focusing on another principle. There are more men in leadership roles than present in households. There’s 1 out 4 Negro fathers missing from the household. However, there’s a number of Negro families that broken away from the pathology to consider themselves as independent and stable. In those families study have shown children, who were protected by their parents performed better than their white peers. Families who had both mother and father, was more likely to succeed than a household with
Among the young, it seems like there is an epidemic of bad behaviors. Teenagers aren’t finishing high school, they are getting knocked up, and going to prison/jail. In his “Pound Cake Speech” Bill Cosby addresses these issues to the African American community. His speech was an emotional view of parenting these days. Bill Cosby argues that the 50 percent dropout rate in schools is because of parenting, children not speaking English grammatically is because of parenting, children having children is because of parenting, and children carrying guns and ending up in prison is because of parenting. The parenting he says, of the lower and middle economic classes of African Americans is the reason why these things are happening. He blames poor parenting for these issues. However, Cosby fails to take into account that these issues are wider than poor parenting. African American children face these problems not due to the lack of care and concern from their parents, but due to the lack of resources that their parents can use to provide for them.
In chapter three of this report a section is established exclusively for matriarchy in the Negro American family. Based on the Moynihan Report, the role of the black woman in the family is to be aware her sense of self, financially, academically, and emotionally, while also uplifting and solidifying the status of the Negro man, as well as her children, both male and female. The genesis of matriarchal dominance amongst the Negro family is, according to Moynihan, education. Moynihan compares various educational rates of white males and females and nonwhite males and females. Statistically sh...
In her book, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Annette Lareau argues out that the influences of social class, as well as, race result in unequal childhoods (Lareau 1). However, one could query the inequality of childhood. To understand this, it is necessary to infer from the book and assess the manner in which race and social class tend to shape the life of a family. As the scholar demonstrates, each race and social class usually has its own unique way of child upbringing based on circumstances. To affirm this, the different examples that the scholar presents in the book could be used. Foremost, citing the case of both the White and the African American families, the scholar advances that the broader economics of racial inequality has continued to hamper the educational advancement and blocks access to high-paying jobs with regard to the Blacks as opposed to the Whites. Other researchers have affirmed this where they indicate that the rate of unemployment among the African Americans is twice that of the White Americans. Research further advances that, in contrast to the Whites, for those African Americans who are employed, there is usually a greater chance that they have been underemployed, receive lower wages, as well as, inconsistent employment. This is how the case of unequal childhood based on race comes about; children from the Black families will continue residing in poverty as opposed to those from the white families.
Most African American sons and daughters grew up without father like figure and while wives hope their husbands are a not failures, they sort of have an expectation of them to fail. These men had family to provide for and failing to do so is embarrassing and humiliating so many men leave their families before they fail. This adds to their problems and causes anger, resentment, bad life choices and
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American politician and sociologist, states in his report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965), that matriarchy is the main contributor to problems within the Black family. He argues that the matriarch prevents the African American family from achieving equality since it exists in a family system that does include a strong presence of a father-figure. Moynihan contends that “the Negro community has been forced into a matriarchal structure which … seriously retards the progress of the group as a whole” (Moynihan 21)....
...in a degree as well avoiding racial stigmas. Furthermore, these experiences are in direct correlation to the contexts of other social and institutional hierarchies because they help influence and sometimes make their choices. Some social and institutional hierarchies are families and educational institution. Clarke goes into further detail by explaining the inequalities that affect African American women are based on the unequal access to love, marriage, and childbearing.
Nabrit, James M. Jr. “The Relative Progress and the Negro in the United States: Critical Summary and Evaluation.” Journal of Negro History 32.4 (1963): 507-516. JSTOR. U of Illinois Lib., Urbana. 11 Apr. 2004
Classism has existed for many years within the Black community. It introduced its self to the slaves and has continued to reveal its self to Blacks well into the 21st century. Having a great presence within the Black community, classism has caused a disunification within the Black community. In the years of slavery the house Negro considered himself better than the field Negro. Today the middle-class black considers himself above the lower-class black. Both the house Negro and the middle-class black family have strived to disassociate themselves from those Blacks of lower status. Consequently, Blacks have suffered a great separation among their community.
After reading different articles and learning more about African American culture, it made me want to find out more about my own family culture. There are different traditions that are pasted down in generations, which could have been a part of African culture that we don’t realize such as parenting styles. I don’t remember hearing too many stories about my past relatives growing up, so I had to find out more on my family experiences in the south. Also, I wanted to see how spirituality played a roll in my family choices. My goal in this paper is to show how I got a better understanding of the reason my family could be structured the way it is now.
Jacqueline Jones argues that “the burden of transition from a slave to a free black population fell most heavily on mothers whose offspring perpetuated the system of bondage.” Even after a state emancipated slaves, a woman’s child was bound, much as indentured servitude, to the freed slave’s master. Once freed and migration to northern cities occurred, the ratio of men to women changed drastically since the Colonial period. However, black women provided services much as they did while enslaved: cooking, cleaning, or tending to white children.[4] Although they received wages, emancipated women remained at the low end of the social hierarchy despite their ability to embrace the domesticity of
The society and institutions that diminished the families were not the families’ faults. They wanted basic human rights and to they wished to be able to support their families with a comfortable living wage. The Civil Rights era of the 1960s American South saw the same predicament. The African Americans were a menace to society because the society primed itself to view them as such. They too wanted basic human rights and to live comfortably without threatened safety, but they were against institutions that segregated and targeted them.
The roles of African American couples differ: women tend to take on more roles than of a White woman, while the father’s absence often is viewed as not providing effectively for the family.
In her essay entitled “Reflections on the Role of Black Women in the Community of Slaves,” Angela Davis sought to dispel many of the myths surrounding the roles of black women during slave times and that of the black matriarchal figure. Davis challenged the idea of a black matriarch, stating that “…the slave system did not — and could not — engender and recognize a matriarchal family structure. Inherent in the very concept of the matriarchy is power” (Davis 201). Under the circumstances of slavery, the figure known as a “black matriarch” could not possibly exist, because someone who was oppressed by slavery could not hold any true power.
African American families have maintained familial ties most predominantly through extended family members from slavery to present. Extended family members have provided social and economic support collectively in many ways (Shusta, et al. p. 163, para. 2, 2015). African Americas as well as other ethnic groups have experienced economic hardships caused by internal and external factors which have impacted income. Single mothers have assumed the dominant role in many African American families, primarily due to necessity, through the absence the father or no marriage to the mother. Lack of economic and personal support by fathers aid in negative perceptions between African Americans and Law Enforcement personnel.
In today’s society many grow up in a single parent household and it may effect some different than other’s. For instance you can look at the percentage of race and how it affects each. For one can look at a black family and see the effects it has on them. Black families are in the high percentage range of growing up in a single parent home. The outcome has little effect on than that of a white family. Not all black families are single parent homes, but the ones that are may be due to parent killed, in prison, or just do not know who their father’s. To compare to a white family growing up in a single parent house can have a higher effect. White families may experience being in a single parent household due to parents getting divorced or death.