Research Catalog

Title

Dark ghetto : dilemmas of social power / by Kenneth B. Clark ; foreword by Gunnar Myrdal.

Author

Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005.

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, ©1965.

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Details

Additional Authors

Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987

Description

xxix, 251 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

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.

Subject

• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions
• African Americans > Segregation > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans > Segregation
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Social conditions
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions
• New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
• New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > New York > Harlem
• 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 (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

Call Number

Sc 323.174-C (Clark, K. Dark ghetto)

LCCN

64007834

OCLC

711022

Author

Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005.

Title

Dark ghetto : dilemmas of social power / by Kenneth B. Clark ; foreword by Gunnar Myrdal.

Imprint

New York : Harper & Row, ©1965.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Indexed Term

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

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

Sc 323.174-C (Clark, K. Dark ghetto)

IEC (Clark, K. B. Dark ghetto)

JX 22-12549