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Behind Ghetto Walls - Black Families in a Federal Slum (Paperback, New Ed)
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Behind Ghetto Walls - Black Families in a Federal Slum (Paperback, New Ed)
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This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and
adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis.
The Pruitt-Igoe project is only one of the many environments in
which urban Negro Americans lived in the 1960s, but the character
of the family life there shares much with the family life of
lower-class Negroes as it has been described by other investigators
in other cities and at other times, in Harlem, Chicago, New
Orleans, or Washington D.C. This book is primarily concerned with
private life as it is lived from day to day in a federally built
and supported slum. The questions, which are treated here, have to
do with the kinds of interpersonal relationships that develop in
nuclear families, the socialization processes that operate in
families as children grow up in a slum environment, the informal
relationships of children and adolescents and adults with each
other, and, finally, the world views (the existential framework)
arising from the life experiences of the Pruitt-Igoeans and the
ways they make use of this framework to order their experiences and
make sense out of them. The lives of these persons are examined in
terms of life cycles. Each child there is born into a constricted
world, the world of lower class, Negro existence, and as he grows
he is shaped and directed by that existence through the day-to-day
experiences and relationships available to him. The crucial
transition from child of a family; to progenitor of a new family
begins in adolescence, and for this reason the book pays particular
attention to how each new generation of parents expresses the
cultural and social structural forces that formed it and continue
to constrain its behavior. This book, in short, is about intimate
personal life in a particular ghetto setting. It does not analyze
the larger institutional, social structural, and ideological forces
that provide the social, economic, and political context in which
lower-class Negro life is lived. These larger macro sociological
forces are treated in another volume based on research in the
Pruitt-Igoe community. However, this book does draw on the large
body of literature on the structural position of Negroes in
American society as background for its analysis of Pruitt-Igoe
private life. "Lee Rainwater" is professor emeritus of sociology at
Harvard University and research director of the Luxembourg Income
Study. He was one of the original founders of Transaction. He has
been associate editor of "Journal of Marriage and the Family" and
on the review board of "Sociological Quarterly." He was written
various books and in many professional journals.
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