TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Historical disaster and the new urban crisis
JO  - Journal of African American studies
A1  - Hayes, Floyd W.
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
VL  - 22
IS  - 1
N2  - Conventional studies of urban poverty largely blame African Americans for their impoverished situation and the consequent social difficulties that arise there from. This paper confronts and indicts that perspective. Examining the historic dehumanization process that shaped African America, the present study argues that it served as the framework for how whites justified their racist and violent treatment of slaves and their African American descendants. It was this same racist theory and practice that led to the construction of racialized oppressive urban ghettos that became the economically impoverished domicile for urban black people. Therefore, poor African Americans have been caught in a cauldron of circumstances not of their own making, but with which they have had to cope and struggle.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1936-4741
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12111-017-9389-x
ID  - ref1
ER  -