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Despite the overall economic gains in the 1990s, many young black men continue to have the poorest life chances of anyone in our society. Joblessness and low earnings among these less-educated young adults are contributing to reductions in marriage, increases in nonmarital childbearing, and a host of other social problems. In Black Males Left Behind, Ronald Mincy has assembled a distinguished group of experts who examine how less-educated black men fared relative to other less-educated young people during the economic expansion of the 1990s and why. Chapters explore the roles of the macroeconomy, the deconcentration of blue-collar employment, criminal justice policy, and the employment aspirations of young less-educated black men and consider their implications for the design of employment services, welfare-to-work policies, workforce development policy, and child support enforcement. Two chapters comprehensively review policy opportunities to assist less-educated young black fathers and discuss how to overcome political resistance to initiatives serving less-educated black men. This book makes a compelling case for greater public attention to a serious domestic problem.
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Some Brothas Number-Crunched.......2007-06-25
This book is talking about a subset of Black men: young males who are low-income and have no college education. This book would have more properly been called "THOSE Black Men Left Behind." This book is about the J.J. Evanses of the country, not the Theo Huxtables. It includes no older Black men of any class or education level.
Curiously, this book compares this group to low-income white or Latino males more than any other groups. In a way, this book foregrounds class more than race. The numbers in this book exclude males in the military and those in prison for most chapters.
This book consists of studies that peel the onion asking why Black males in this group did not prosper in the successful 1990s. It asks many questions, including: did the transfer of blue-collar jobs from the city to the suburbs do it? did the introduction of low-income women in the workforce do it? what effect does a prison conviction have upon this group? etc.
This book has great intentions, but it's really for numbers-crunchers only. A conservative mathematician would love this book more than a progressive who doesn't care for numbers. If you are one to skip graphs and charts, you will flip through much of this. But if you don't care for "regression analyses" and "x coefficients" and stuff, you will detest this book. Policy makers need these numbers to move forward in their work, but most other readers will be bored silly.
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Deborah Smith puts it down in this funny, passionate, and truth filled novel. The main character Kiyah Simmons moves from test to testimony as she makes her way from a failed marriage to a failed affair. Come feel the beat of this novel as it races through time to teach Kiyah a lesson of life, love and sanctimonious lies. Over 70,000 copies sold to date.
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Pitiful!.......2006-02-24
This book was recommended to me for purchase and I wish I could get every bit of my $12.95 + tax refunded. I agree with one of the previous reviewers. The book has no substance or meaning behind it. There were too many references to various designers and what fragrances she wore. I mean come on the book is unrealistic. What was her job in the family business? I know her sister ran the ministries foundation but come on how much money could they have been making to afford the lifestyles they were used to. Sounds like they were robbing the church just like Pastor Leon. And what did their foundation do?
She hinted that Leon showed no interest in her children, but she didn't show much either. Yeah she bought them designer clothes but where did her quality time with them come in. Sounds like she just fed them chicken, salad, and corn and sent them to bed. Conveniently every weekend they spent them away with the Dad. And then they never went to church together? And back to the synopsis on the books cover, what was it that she discovered was there with her all along? Did I miss something?
This book was definitely rushed! Ughhh!
It all comes to the light.......2005-10-21
Have you checked your relationships? Deborah Smith evaluates relationships in this family oriented drama centered on the church. Kiyah Simmons realizes that she has put self first and God second. In an attempt to bring order to her life, she shakes things up and starts divorce proceedings. She begins to take her life back starting with the money, which her husband has been so good at spending on fancy cars, designer clothes and younger women.
Kiyah's family has been her lifeline. Queen Bee, her oldest sister and matriarch, took over the ministry foundation office when their mother died several years ago. Ever Ready, Kiyah's other sister, is a time bomb waiting to explode just as her nickname implies and she is always prepared to give out a beat down or a tongue lashing. Kiyah also has three brothers, all of which have found themselves on the other side of the law. Isn't this is what we have come to expect from preachers kids?
Back to the story, the Simmons sisters were having lunch when Kiyah spotted Leon Booker. Remember she is getting her life back, forsaking herself and asking the Lord for guidance in all decisions especially when it comes to men. Leon must have overheard Kiyah's conversation with God because he contacted her that afternoon. Lunch turned into dinner and short conversations quickly became routine. A chance meeting during lunch lasted over three months. That is until black secrets are revealed and skeletons fly out of the closet the Friday before Men's Appreciation Sunday.
Deborah Smith tells the story about what we all think about with everyday candor and wit. What is the preacher really doing all day and night? The delivery, timing and suspense of the story are extraordinary. Ministers with White Collars & Black Secrets has two things working against its 5 star rating: the ending seemed rushed and minor detail problems. For example, the entire story was wrapped up in three pages and Kiyah was riding in an Expedition but on the next page it is a Jeep. Despite a couple of errors Smith writes an eye-opening tale about having God at the center of your relationships. There is a sequel to this book and I have already ordered it. So should you.
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Forgive Our Trespasses.......2005-07-17
Kiyah Simmons, a soon to be divorced mother of two, has prayed for the right man to come into her life, a good man, a man of God, but she does not want a stiff, rigid deacon or minister. She does not want to be condemned for wearing jeans on a Saturday night or for wearing lip gloss every now and then. After her failed marriage, she knows exactly what she wants in a man and believes she has found it in the smooth, suave and romantic Reverend Leon Booker. He seems to understand Kiyah and accepts her as she is, but the good Reverend has secrets. When Kiyah is finally exposed to the truth she will need her faith and the love of God to see her through.
I was initially turned away by the title. I did not believe that it would be entertaining or hold my interest, but it did. It reads similar to chick lit but is undeniably Christian fiction. I would often smile to myself at some of the antics of the characters, because I know someone just like that at my church or in my family. I found fault with how the author displays the characters emotions by underlining and using all capital letters which I felt was not necessary and there were a few minor editing problems. Despite those minor issues, the novel is an enjoyable read, better than I had anticipated. (RAW Rating 3.5)
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FINALLY - Somebody Had To Do It! GREAT JOB.......2005-06-23
I am a minister and I have seen scandal, deceit and ungodly characteristics amongst high ranking clergy. When this book was recommended to me, I was a little apprehensive, but so very glad that I decided upon reading it.
It was a revelation, conviction and inspiring to learn from this main character's journey from test to testimony.
This is a great book and you will love to hate Pastor Leon Booker the Pastor that can out hustle any hustler on the streets.
I'm rushing out to get part 2. This book was the BOMB!
What an obvious secret.......2005-06-14
I got this book because I really wanted to read Robbed Without a Gun. Well I am so glad I didn't buy them both. Not to be mean and take away from Ms. Smiths' ability to create. The story just went around and around in circles and never said anything interesting. Actually it gave me a headache. I didn't complete the story I could not get pass all the designer name dropping and the fact that she just didnt seem to have much commen sense.
I gave this story 2 stars for the author's efforts.
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From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test--and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job-seeker over the black. At the heart of this study is the question: Is there something about young black men that makes them less desirable as workers than their white peers? And if not, then why do black men trail white men in earnings and employment rates? Royster seeks an answer in the experiences of 25 black and 25 white men who graduated from the same vocational school and sought jobs in the same blue-collar labor market in the early 1990s. After seriously examining the educational performances, work ethics, and values of the black men for unique deficiencies, her study reveals the greatest difference between young black and white men--access to the kinds of contacts that really help in the job search and entry process.
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The BEST book on race discrimination since maybe ever.......2004-11-11
Give this book to relatives, friends, students who think that race discrimination is history in America. Royster is a fabulous interviewer and writer. Her fifty young graduates of vocational high school (half African-American, half white) open up to her with heartbreaking honesty. White kids are successful because of the web of older white friends, relatives, and teachers in their school who make sure that they have jobs, even when they have criminal convictions. They praise the skills of some black classmates but feel no obligation to help them, as they themselves have been helped. The black young men think many of the white men are "cool," but make no demands. Anyone who doesn't see the need for affirmative action should read this book.
Exclusionary Networks.......2004-10-05
In examining the seeming intractability of race and exclusionary tactics of white-male social networks, sociologist, Deirdre A. Royster asks and answers five fundamental questions that serve as a foundation for substantive discussions and analysis, among academic and non-academic audiences alike. Her questions are: (1) What happens when whites and blacks share a track placement, the same teachers, and the same classrooms? (2) Can desegregated institutions, in this post-civil rights era, provide equal foundations and assistance for blacks and whites? (3) Does the problem of embeddedness - in this case, historically segregated job networks - stifle the emergence of cross-racial linkage mechanisms and networks beyond schools? (4) Or does the post-Civil Rights era provide a new, color-blind labor market in which blacks show signs of work-readiness and achievement succeed on a par with white peers in terms of initial employment outcomes? (5) Finally, are black students, as the racial deficits theory suggests, lacking something that should make them less desirable as workers than their white peers? Of her questions, I find number one of considerable interest, for it illustrates what are some outcomes even when the playing field is leveled.
In asking such questions Royster lays a foundation that challenges conventional wisdom as it relates to African Americans and their economic, political, and social achievements. Not unlike a 1992 Atlanta newspaper article by Leonard Steinhorn, wherein he writes, "rather than asking why blacks have achieved so little, it is more appropriate to ask how blacks achieved so much given the odds against them," Royster begins her work by examining the social networks of her African American and American Anglo male respondents; networks that allow for successful school-to-work transitions for white males, but which are lacking in African American blue-collar social circles. Historically, with fewer and fewer African American men in quality blue-collar jobs, coupled with the lack of social networks, young black males seeking entrée into the sector were not met with a hand up, but a proverbial boot in the face.
Examining the landscape of African American unemployment, coupled with massive deindustrialization in many American cities, I conclude that not only do African American males face seemingly entrenched "stigmatization" as articulated by Glenn Loury in his work "The Anatomy of Racial Inequality", they are also victims of a mistaken belief among white males that if an African American male has a particular job the Anglo male covets, it was not earned by merit alone, but by means unavailable to white males, i.e. affirmative action. Recognizing this faulty logic among many white males is particularly telling in that they seem to ignore historical impediments, i.e. deadly threats and actual death faced by African Americans in general and African American males in particular seeking quality employment. Even among black and white males of like educational, social, and economic standing, as proffered by Royster, white males persist in asserting that blacks are undeserving of their position, which some white males argue is due to legislative intervention.
Partially employing Granovetter's theory of the strength of weak ties, Royster, shows how white males partake in a system often unnoticed by black males and never given a second thought by white males themselves. So much so, that white males do not observe that even when they engage in "typical `boys will be boys behavior'," white males are not without access to a web of networks. She goes on to write, "whereas white men can be thought of as second-chance kids, black men's opportunities were so fragile that most could not have recovered from even the relatively insignificant mishaps that white men report in passing." Such comments in "passing" by Royster's white male respondents illustrates their lack of an acute understanding of their "white-skin privilege" as articulated by Peggy McIntosh and their membership within a social structure/network that affords many opportunities for "mishaps" to be routinely accepted by both peers and potential employers. Mishaps that often leaves the African American male possessing a criminal record and effectively barred from potentially lucrative employment.
Royster does a very good job of writing in an approachable style for non-academics and in a way that is intellectually redeeming for the hardcore academic mind. While some researchers may find fault with her "passing" as white to gather data, little can be said against both its utility and effectiveness of moving into a comfort zone with her respondents, such that her interviews with white males prove both disturbing and enlightening. As she states at the outset, "because I can pass for white, I have often overheard conversations among whites to which people of color are not ordinarily privy," Royster understands the risks, but proceeds and produces a masterful work.
Overall, Royster has provided a work that, as William Julius Wilson noted, "will be widely read and cited." For this work and the ideas generated, this reviewer applauds the author's efforts and contributions.
Right on, Dr. Sistagirl!.......2004-08-18
Since so many conservatives think that racism no longer exists, the market will cure all evils, and blacks do poorly because of individual rather than social failures, Dr. Royster puts these ideas to the test. She interviews 25 white men and 25 black men who studied the same vocational courses at the same high school to see if they did just as well in the marketplace. Though the black men get just as good grades and attend classes just as much, their individual initiative does not explain why their white counterparts consistently found jobs easier, were paid more, worked in fields in which they prepared, and were just generally better off.
So many people nowadays feel that racism is so nebulous in the post-civil rights era that surely it must not exist. Dr. Royster explodes this idea and gives American racism a real face. In this study, white employers would forgive white males with criminal backgrounds but condemn black men in the same situation. White teachers gave black males verbal support but they only went out of their way to find actual jobs for white, male students. White males had tons of contacts who could find them jobs, no questions asked; while black men were consistently asked to prove their skills and proceed through bureaucracy. White male job applicants met white employers in predominantly-white parks, golf courses, churches, and many other places where few black males would have access. White employers would rather tell white applicants "You didn't get hired due to affirmative action" rather than "You were far from the most qualified person." The only successful black in this study said he has to constantly grin and bow and that white co-workers purposely used racist epithets hoping to make him explode and get fired. Though white males unanimously agreed that "who you know" gets you into doors, they never once realize that they know more well-off peopole than black men. In addition, though white males consistently fared better than their black counterparts, white employers would continually imply that they must give preferential treatment to them to counteract affirmative action policies.
This book is well-written and sophisticated, though I think lay readers will be able to understand it generally. This book doesn't become overly descriptive and fall into simple narrative. The first individual interviewee discussed isn't brought up until page 66 of this 200-paged book.
Dr. Royster stated that she originally intended to interview black and white females as well, but didn't due to time constraints and a lack of an interviewing pool. Thus, this is men's studies by default. Still, since the trades mentioned here are predominantly male, this exclusion makes sense. In fact, Dr. Royster suggests that black males have limited contacts because they can only go to similarly-classed black women, rather than the powerful white male mentors that young white males had. This was a fascinating gender politic.
Dr. Royster describes herself as "a very, light-skinned African American." Hence, white subjects revealed things to her that she is sure they wouldn't have revealed to a phenotypically black researcher. This undercover interviewing is fascinating, but lead to truthful and accurate results.
Though a new scholar, Dr. Royster critiques the most famous living black sociologist, Dr. W.J. Wilson, yet he even has to admit that her research is excellent. (See the back cover of the book.)
I wasn't expecting this book to be a sociological study. I thought it would be a history of racism in labor movements and unions. Still, I was not displeased by the results. I am a better person for having found and read this text. Big applause to Dr. Royster.
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A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921
Theresa A. Hammond
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Among the major professions, certified public accountancy has the most severe underrepresentation of African Americans: less than one percent of CPAs are black. Theresa Hammond explores the history behind this statistic and chronicles the courage and determination of African Americans who sought to enter the field. In the process, she expands our understanding of the links between race, education, and economics.
Drawing on interviews with pioneering black CPAs, among other sources, Hammond sets the stories of black CPAs against the backdrop of the rise of accountancy as a profession, the particular challenges that African Americans trying to enter the field faced, and the strategies that enabled some blacks to become CPAs. Prior to the 1960s, few white-owned accounting firms employed African Americans. Only through nationwide networks established by the first black CPAs did more African Americans gain the requisite professional experience. The civil rights era saw some progress in integrating the field, and black colleges responded by expanding their programs in business and accounting. In the 1980s, however, the backlash against affirmative action heralded the decline of African American participation in accountancy and paved the way for the astonishing lack of diversity that characterizes the field today.
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A Must Read for Every African American current and potential CPA.......2005-08-15
As an African American CPA since 1980, this book is very comprehensive in describing the trials and tribulations of our entry into the accounting profession. My father was born in 1927 and had wanted to become a CPA after hearing about Jesse Blayton. Due to the limitations described in this book, he never realized his dream. Because of his interest in accounting, I studied bookkeeping in high school and became hooked.
In 1974, I got very lucky and was admitted to the accounting program at North Carolina A&T State University. There I studied under Dr. Quiester Craig who is chronicled on page 111 on the book. Just as Craig said in his story, at that time, all our students were naive; however Dr. Craig established that the program at NC A&T would be geared toward preparing every accounting graduate to pass the CPA exam.
This book is a must read for every African American CPA and potential CPA and should be textbook material in every HBCU accounting program in the country. Again, against all odds, we have achieved remarkable things.
Inspiring, Exhilarating Yet Heartrending.......2002-08-23
From my vantage point as a black CPA, this book is at once inspiring and uplifting yet heartrending and depressing. After having read about the trials and tribulations of the pioneers of my profession and of my race(who were/are heroic in some sense), I feel compelled to take advantage of today's opportunity out of respect for what they've done to pave the way for those who have followed.
The author does a fantastic job of taking an erstwhile research paper and making it extremely enjoyable to read. This book is must reading for CPAs in general and black CPAs in particular.
Important, Moving, and Entertaining.......2002-08-06
Hammond chronicles the stories of the remarkable individuals who blazed the trail for African-Americans in the accounting profession. Or I should say, began blazing the trail, because as Hammond points out it is still by far the most segregated profession. When most people hear "accounting" they think of something very dry and technical. But this book is far from that. You learn about the profession and how institutional racism operates, but always as a context for the amazing stories, struggles, and personalities that Hammond conveys. She obviously spent many hours interviewing these pioneers and she tells their stories with academic rigor, but also with compassion, respect, and a sense of humor.
Super Duper!.......2002-07-19
Ok, so maybe I haven't read the book, but since I doubt this is going to break best seller records, I figured I could give some information about the author.
She was my accounting professor last semester in a class called Accounting Information Systems. Theresa is funny, engaging and most importantly a very passionate individual, especially about the struggle for racial equality.
She is undoubtedly the first person to do any research on the subject, and in her powerpoint presentation of the book she unravels an interesting tale of the business world's most caucasian profession. The African americans which are the subject of her narrative show themselves are driven by their interest in this niche profession long after all hope has vanished. The quirky personalities of her story tell a story that sheds light upon the grit of the human spirit.
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Baron Black of Crossharbour: A Biography
George Tombs
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Baron Black of Crossharbour is an unauthorized biography of Conrad Black, who built the world’s third-largest media empire and is now facing criminal charges in Chicago for alleged fraud, money laundering, and racketeering.
Baron Black of Crossharbour is based on rigorous research, hard-hitting interviews, original documents, and exclusive access to Black and his close family and friends, key associates, critics, and staunch enemies. Written by George Tombs, an award-winning journalist and historian, this book gives a fascinating insider’s look at a complex, driven man who is never out of the news for long.
The book will include key testimony and evidence from Black’s Chicago trial, as well as insights into his defence, strategies, hopes . . . and fears. Love him or hate him, Black is a fighter who never says die. Baron Black of Crossharbour tells the story of a modern-day Citizen Kane, helping readers understand why Black does what he does.
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Black Income in India
Suraj B Gupta
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Undeclared (or black) income constitutes a very significant and rapidly growing element in India's economy. It has not only affected the entire gamut of economic activity but has had an enormous impact on the political system. While the phenomenon has received the attention of scholars, exsting studies have concentrated almost exclusively on the evasion of personal income tax. Black Income in India examines the problem of undeclared income in its full diversity and in its various manifestations, including evasion of excise and csutoms duty, bribes and smuggling, real estate and foreign exchange transactions, and misappropriation of government funds. In addition, the author provides rough estimates for selected years of the extent of undeclared income in India, both in the aggregate and for individual sources. The book concludes with a critical review of existing policies to curb black money. "A valuable study which would be well-regarded for its discussion of sources of black incomes." --The Economic Times "This is a scholarly work, and although it contains a lot that the reader may know, it also contains a few things which he may not know." --The Book Review "Dr. Gupta's attempt to look at the many dimensions of black income in India is very welcome. The book is therefore a must for all those really interested in the economic upliftment of the country." --Abhigyan "Gupta's estimates have very serious implications for the characterization of the economy and the state of the development process." --Management & Labor Studies "Very comprehensive, examines the issue of black income in India in its full diversity and various manifestations... With its wide coverage and lucid language the book is expected to serve the needs of policy makers, bureaucrats economists and scholars of other disciplines. Truly the author deserves appreciation for his outstanding work in this area." --Finance India
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Glamorous Very Thin Judy Garland Parade Magazine, April 13, 1975, On Cover in White Dress with Upraised Collar, Smiling , in Front of White Stage Lights , From Her 1960s TV Show, with Black Upswept HAIR, Judy, The Child Who Never Grew Up, Also Small Arti
Robert Walters, Peter Dryden, Pamela Swift, ETC, Judy Garland on Cover Parade Magazine, Illustrated with Photos Including One of Judy in Sequined PantSuit Performing, My Favorite Jokes By William Gerler articles by Lloyd Shearer
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