Abstract This paper shows how social structure shapes many behaviors of low-income Black peoples’ currently labeled “culture.” It refutes both culture poverty arguments based in welfare dependency and deindustrialization explanations the post-1960 increase single-parent families. Historically, distinct discrimination experiences urban versus rural enclaves structured child socializations family...

the previous paper it was reported that up to seven different aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons, including 3,4-benzpyrene, were extracted with benzene from most carbon blacks made by the furnace process, but from no channel blacks (3). This difference cannot be explained on the basis of differences in raw materials. Soot formed in the laboratory from gas, which is similar to that used in the cha...

BACKGROUND Life expectancy is shorter and mortality from cardiovascular disease higher among blacks than among whites in the United States. We studied whether place of birth was associated with mortality from cardiovascular causes among non-Hispanic black and white residents of New York City. METHODS We linked mortality records from 1988 through 1992 with 1990 U.S. census data for New York Ci...

background: to test if social support and ethnicity mediate/moderate the association between religion involvement and subjective health in the united states. methods: this is a secondary analysis of national survey of american life, 2003. hierarchical regression was fit to a national household probability sample of adult african americans ( n = 3570), caribbean blacks ( n = 1621), and whites ( ...

This study compared the odds of becoming disabled and recovering from disability among blacks and whites aged 65 years and over in two sites of the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) project. The authors examined the influence of mortality differences, socioeconomic status, and health-related factors on racial differences in risk of disability and recovery....

This article introduces multinomial logit latent-class regression models for racial comparisons of intergenerational occupational mobility. The models distinguish mobility patterns by four latent classes, which are labeled as the “stable middle” (SM) class, the “downwardly mobile” (DM) class, the “upwardly mobile” (UM) class, and the “stable working” (SW) class. Compared with whites, blacks are...

The Utah Department of Health currently groups African-born blacks with U.S.-born blacks when reporting HIV/AIDS surveillance data. Studies suggest that categorizing HIV/AIDS cases in this manner may mask important epidemiological trends, and the distinct differences between these two populations warrant disaggregating data prior to reporting. The purpose of this study was to characterize the H...

Blacks report lower marital quality and face a higher risk of marital dissolution than Whites, but little is known about how Hispanics compare to these two groups. We examine five dimensions of marital quality as well as marital dissolution for Blacks, Whites, and Mexican Americans using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (N=6,231). Mexican Americans and Whites have simila...

An analysis of data from the 1979-1980 National Survey of Black Americans showed significant differences in the way blacks of different social classes view race. Black Americans were found to identify more closely with blacks in Africa than with white Americans. In the area of political activism, those in the middle class were observed to be more active than those in the lower class. Difference...

This paper provides a unified explanation for why blacks commit more crime, are located in poorer neighborhoods and receive lower wages than whites. If everybody believes that blacks are more criminal than whites -even if there is no basis for thisthen blacks are offered lower wages and, as a result, locate further away from jobs. Distant residence increases even more the black-white wage gap b...