TY - JOUR
T1 - African Americans, U.S. poverty, and international law
T2 - An afrocentric cultural revolution
AU - Borum, Valerie
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Statistical rates of poverty among African Americans often hide the cultural and historical nature of their intended consequences. Unfavorable outcomes for social change can occur when viewing poverty among African Americans in isolation from their unique historical and cultural experiences and U.S. social, political, and capitalistic influences. While pressures to subordinate African Americans continue, African Americans also exert pressure (e.g., social movements) as human agents in their efforts toward self-determination. In order to understand and/or ameliorate poverty in the US, policy makers, researchers, and educators must first deal with the cultural hegemony undergirding it.
AB - Statistical rates of poverty among African Americans often hide the cultural and historical nature of their intended consequences. Unfavorable outcomes for social change can occur when viewing poverty among African Americans in isolation from their unique historical and cultural experiences and U.S. social, political, and capitalistic influences. While pressures to subordinate African Americans continue, African Americans also exert pressure (e.g., social movements) as human agents in their efforts toward self-determination. In order to understand and/or ameliorate poverty in the US, policy makers, researchers, and educators must first deal with the cultural hegemony undergirding it.
KW - African American
KW - Afrocentricity
KW - Culture
KW - International law
KW - Poverty
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38649083435&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1300/J137v15n01_05
DO - 10.1300/J137v15n01_05
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38649083435
VL - 15
SP - 99
EP - 120
JO - Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
JF - Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
SN - 1091-1359
IS - 1
ER -