"Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power" Kenneth B. Clark (Wesleyan Univ Press 1965)
PARTIALLY BASED ON INFORMATION GATHERED IN THE HARLEM YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED PROJECT, THIS BOOK, WRITTEN FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, DISCUSSES THE PROBLEMS OF GHETTO COMMUNITIES AND ITS INHABITANTS AS INTERPRETED FROM THE AUTHOR'S POSITION AS AN "'INVOLVED OBSERVER'."
THE AUTHOR FEELS THAT ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE LOWER STATUS NEGRO ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF ALL POOR PEOPLE IN THE SLUMS, AMERICAN RACISM GIVES THE NEGRO A FEELING THAT HE IS UNABLE TO RISE ECONOMICALLY AND ESCAPE FROM THE SLUMS.
THE BOOK ESSENTIALLY IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF GHETTO LIFE, THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE GHETTO RESIDENT'S LACK OF POWER TO CHANGE HIS STATUS, AND THE INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS OF THOSE IN POSITIONS OF POWER TO USE THEIR POWER FOR CONSTRUCTIVE SOCIAL CHANGE.
SPECIFICALLY, THE BOOK CONTAINS AN ANALYSIS SUPPORTED BY ANY AVAILABLE DATA OF THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS, PSYCHOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, POWER STRUCTURE, AND EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF NEGRO GHETTO LIFE. THERE ARE ALSO DISCUSSIONS OF THE APPROPRIATENESS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE AND OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE NEGRO AND WHITE LIBERAL.
THE AUTHOR FEELS THAT ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE PROBLEMS OF THE LOWER STATUS NEGRO ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF ALL POOR PEOPLE IN THE SLUMS, AMERICAN RACISM GIVES THE NEGRO A FEELING THAT HE IS UNABLE TO RISE ECONOMICALLY AND ESCAPE FROM THE SLUMS.
THE BOOK ESSENTIALLY IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF GHETTO LIFE, THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE GHETTO RESIDENT'S LACK OF POWER TO CHANGE HIS STATUS, AND THE INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS OF THOSE IN POSITIONS OF POWER TO USE THEIR POWER FOR CONSTRUCTIVE SOCIAL CHANGE.
SPECIFICALLY, THE BOOK CONTAINS AN ANALYSIS SUPPORTED BY ANY AVAILABLE DATA OF THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS, PSYCHOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, POWER STRUCTURE, AND EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF NEGRO GHETTO LIFE. THERE ARE ALSO DISCUSSIONS OF THE APPROPRIATENESS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE AND OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE NEGRO AND WHITE LIBERAL.
About author
KENNETH B. CLARK is often called "the scholar of the civil rights movement." He was graduated from Howard University and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Best known for research cited by the Supreme Court in Brown, he is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the City University of New York; president of Clark, Phipps, Clark, and Harris; former president of the American Psychological Association; member of the New York State Board of Regents; and author of, among other books, King, Malcolm, and Baldwin; Dark Ghetto; and Pathos of Power. His home is in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
KENNETH B. CLARK is often called "the scholar of the civil rights movement." He was graduated from Howard University and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Best known for research cited by the Supreme Court in Brown, he is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the City University of New York; president of Clark, Phipps, Clark, and Harris; former president of the American Psychological Association; member of the New York State Board of Regents; and author of, among other books, King, Malcolm, and Baldwin; Dark Ghetto; and Pathos of Power. His home is in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Name: "Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power"
Authors: Kenneth B. Clark; Gunnar Myrdal, fwd.; William Julius Wilson,
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Press
Year: 1989 (1st printing 1965)
No.of pages: 296
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Contents
• Introduction to the Wesleyan Edition by William Julius Wilson
• Foreword by Gunnar Myrdal
• Introduction to an Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: The Cry of the Ghetto
• The Invisible Wall
• The Social Dynamics of the Ghetto
• The Psychology of the Ghetto
• The Pathology of the Ghetto
• Ghetto Schools: Separate and Unequal
• The Power Structure of the Ghetto
• Strategy for Change
• Black and White: The Ghetto Inside
• General Index
• Index of Cities
