Title Dark ghetto dilemmas of social power, by Kenneth B. Clark. Foreword by Gunnar Myrdal

Edition [1st ed.] Published New York, Harper & Row [1965]

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 251 pages) illustrations Contents Foreword / Gunnar Myrdal -- Introduction to an epilogue -- 1. Prologue : The cry of the ghetto -- 2. The invisible wall -- 3. The social dynamics of the ghetto -- Economic and social decay -- Housing decay -- The dynamics of under-employment -- White unions, black proletariat -- The cycle of family instability -- Realistic intervention -- Black social mobility -- 4. The psychology of the ghetto -- Fantasy protections -- Sex and status -- The Negro matriarchy and the distorted masculine image -- White rationalizations -- Moral objectivity -- 5. The pathology of the ghetto -- Emotional illness -- Homicide and suicide -- Delinquency -- Drug addiction -- Prevention and rehabilitation -- Narcotics control -- The causes of pathology 6. Ghetto schools : separate and unequal -- The public schools : a segregated system? -- Educational inequality -- The debate on the causes of inferiority -- Educational atrophy : the self-fulfilling prophecy -- The cult of cultural deprivation -- Defeatism in ghetto schools -- Evidence of effective learning -- The role of leadership -- 7. The power structure of the ghetto -- Political power -- The power of the press -- The power of social services -- The power of the Church -- Religious leaders and social action -- Experiments in power -- Creative power transcending the ghetto -- 8. Strategy for change -- Power and social change -- Conflicting forces -- Alternatives to sound and fury -- Ideology, leadership, and social momentum -- A common destiny -- 9. Black and white : the ghetto inside -- Fantasy barrier -- Confrontation of the liberals -- Some pivotal realities Summary This book is a skilled indictment of the terrible failure of our affluent society, even in the 'liberal' North, to meet the racial problem it has created and now perpetuates -- a state of degradation and frustration for millions of its citizens. The immediate cause of the "pathology of the ghetto" is not, Clark argues, the fact of segregation. Rather it is the loss of status and self- respect, the frustration, the overwhelming sense of impotence and defeat that cause apathy, crime, addiction, broken families, squalid living conditions, and all the other symptoms of social pathology. Clark raises the questions, attempts some answers, and proposes a strategy for change within the framework of our present economic and social system. This book is intellectually stimulating; it is necessary reading for everyone interested in the most critical of our domestic issues and should be required for those whites who honestly seek to participate in the civil rights struggle Analysis African Americans Segregation New York (State) New York African Americans Social conditions New York (State) New York Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions New York (N.Y.) Social conditions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record commitment to retain 20151208 pda OTUTLD Subject African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions African Americans -- Segregation -- New York (State) -- New York African Americans. Social history. Social problems. African Americans -- Segregation. African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York Black or African American Social Conditions Social Problems African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social history African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Segregation African American. social history. social issues. Social problems Social history African Americans African Americans -- Segregation African Americans -- Social conditions Social conditions Noirs américains -- New York (State) -- New York -- Conditions sociales. Noirs américains -- New York (State) -- New York -- Ségrégation. African Americans -- New York (State) -- Social conditions. African Americans -- Segregation -- New York. SUBJECT Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions New York (N.Y.) -- Social history Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions. New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions. Form Electronic book

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