Sample Essay
Harrell Rodgers (2006) discusses the social norms prevailing in the African American community and poverty at a macroeconomic level in ‘American Poverty in a New Era of Reform’. Much of the comparison is given in terms of White Americans, Asians, Hispanics and Black American in the recession struck society still coping with downsizing and joblessness.
According to him, the minority female headed family undergoes through more unemployment as compared to the rest, whereas, race and ethnicity are powerful predictors of poverty and related issues while whites have the lowest rates of unemployment and poverty.
The unemployment rate for white non Hispanics in 2003 was 8.2% while they account for 68% of the total population and in totality 15.5 million of them were poor; however, according to the author even a low rate of poverty produces a trickledown effect as far as the impact on the overall economy is concerned.
On the other hand, the African American population, though relatively less, accounts for the highest number of unemployed people, by 1960 nearly half of them were poor especially due to the factors above such as the aggressive reforms and prevention of blacks from urbanization. In the early twentieth century, they were known to be the largest migrant group of people assimilating into the society. Likewise, according to Drake and Cayton (1997) the era of 1960’s was that of ‘integration of the African American community’ into the rest of America and that characterized by prosperity.
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