This can highlight the position of “multiply-burdened” groups, as Crenshaw puts it. Intersectionality points to the need to see individuals in the context of a wide range of identities, rather than in simple binary terms, such as male or female, Black or white or gay or straight. Policymakers should consider Black men’s experience -and these select facts- through the lens of “intersectionality,” a framework pioneered by Kimberlé Crenshaw for examining how identities can combine to create specific nodes of disadvantage. These are hard facts but ones that have to be faced in order to respond to the once-in-a-generation moment of racial reckoning taking place in the U.S. Note however that Black women fare worse in terms of household income than in individual income, especially compared to whites-itself a reflection, in part, of the worse outcomes for Black men. The data shows that Black men raised by low-income parents face twice the risk of remaining stuck in intergenerational poverty ( 38% ) as Black women (20%) in terms of their individual income. The figure below shows the probability of moving up the income ladder for children raised by low-income parents by race. A third of white men raised by low-income parents end up in the top 40% of the income distribution as adults, compared to only 19% of Black boys. Black men, by contrast, are much less likely than white men to rise up the income ladder, according to Raj Chetty and his team at Opportunity Insights who have crunched the numbers on 20 million Americans in the 1978-1983 birth cohorts. īlack women and white women raised by low-income parents (those in the bottom 20% of the income distribution) have similar rates of upward intergenerational mobility, measured in terms of their individual income as adults.
Here, we provide some key facts on Black men ’s outcomes in eight important domains, c ompar ed to Black women, white women, and white men. Black boys and Black men, in particular, run the gauntlet of a specific brand of racism, at the sharp intersection of race and gender. It will be important for the Commission to fully understand the challenges facing Black men specifically, in order to target policy appropriately. This is a welcome and positive development. The legislation to create the Commission was introduced in the House by Representative Frederica Wilson (D-FL) and s ponsored in the Senate by Marco Rubio (R-FL), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ ). ” The Commission is required by law to report annually and “ make recommendations to improve the social conditions and provide vital guidance for Congress on effective strategies to reduce the racial disparities in education, criminal justice, health and employment.
” Th is bipartisan Commission, consisting of 19 members, will “ investigate potential civil rights violations affecting black males and study the disparities they experience in education, criminal justice, health, employment, fatherhood, mentorship and violence. Witness the creation in 2019 of a new Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, charged with recommend ing policies to “ improve upon, or augment, current government programs. This is one area where it is reasonable to hope for some bipartisan action. The elements of this New Deal will likely consist of intentional policymaking in the fields of education and training, the labor market, family policy (especially for fathers), criminal justice reform, and tackling concentrated poverty. ”Ĭreating this New Deal is one of the core priorities of the Race, Prosperity and Inclusion Initiative, directed by Camille, but also of the new Boys and Men Project launched today out of the Center on Children and Families.
“No other demographic group has fared as badly, so persistently and for so long.” To meet this “appalling crisis,” Camille calls for nothing less than “ a New Deal for Black men. “To be male, poor, and either African-American or Native-American is to confront, on a daily basis, a deeply held racism that exists in every social institution,” writes our Brookings colleague Camille Busette.
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