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Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social
and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these
inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and
providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and
Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law of remedies to
show that the conventional wisdom is mistaken. She argues that
effectively addressing today's persistent racial disparities
requires dispelling the confusion surrounding blacks' own role in
achieving equality. The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that
discrimination against blacks has dramatically abated. The most
important factors now impeding black progress are behavioral: low
educational attainment, poor socialization and work habits, drug
use, criminality, paternal abandonment, and non-marital
childbearing. Although these maladaptive patterns are largely the
outgrowth of past discrimination and oppression, they now largely
resist correction by government programs or outside interventions.
Wax asserts that the black community must solve these problems from
within. Self-help, changed habits, and a new cultural outlook are,
in fact, the only effective tactics for eliminating the present
vestiges of our nation's racist past. Published in cooperation with
the Hoover Institution
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