{"id":358,"date":"2008-11-07T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-11-07T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T15:03:06","slug":"racial-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/11\/07\/racial-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"racial progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.com\/archive\/2008\/november-11-08\/the-long-march-of-racial-progress\">The American<\/a> is now running a story titled, &#8220;The Long March of Racial Progress,&#8221; a piece that examines the story of race relations in America and the extraordinary changes that have come about. Sociological commentary is featured prominently in this story, specifically the work of sociologist Reynolds Farley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.com\/archive\/2008\/november-11-08\/the-long-march-of-racial-progress\">The American<\/a> reports:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As University of Michigan sociologist Reynolds Farley points out in a new paper,<span>\u00a0there are now 41 African Americans serving in the House of Representatives, compared to only six when the Kerner Commission issued its famous report on race and poverty in 1968. During the years following the Kerner Report, \u201cThe slowly rising incomes of black men and the more rapidly rising incomes of black women produced an important economic change for African Americans,\u201d Farley writes. \u201cIn 1996, for the first time, the majority of blacks were in the economic middle class or above, if that means living in a household with an income at least twice the poverty line.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Farley, \u201cOnly three percent of African Americans could be described as economically comfortable in 1968. That has increased to 17 percent at present. This is an unambiguous sign of racial progress: one black household in six could be labeled financially comfortable.\u201d He notes that the black-white poverty gap \u201cis much smaller now\u201d than it was in the late 1960s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story continues, as Reynolds notes, with a point of caution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, we should not be overly sanguine about black progress, which has been hindered in recent decades by social pathologies and family disintegration. Since the 1968 Kerner Report, \u201c<span>adult black men have fallen further and further behind similar white men in terms of being employed,\u201d says Farley, emphasizing that\u00a0<\/span><span>\u201c<\/span><span>the white-black gap in personal income is not closing, nor is the white-black gap in household income getting any smaller.\u201d Indeed, both the white-black income gap and the white-black gap in educational attainment remain \u201cpersistent and substantial.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.com\/archive\/2008\/november-11-08\/the-long-march-of-racial-progress\">full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American is now running a story titled, &#8220;The Long March of Racial Progress,&#8221; a piece that examines the story of race relations in America and the extraordinary changes that have come about. Sociological commentary is featured prominently in this story, specifically the work of sociologist Reynolds Farley. The American reports:\u00a0 As University of Michigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[123,39110,143,154,39115,39111],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-ethnicity","tag-inequality","tag-labor","tag-political","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}