Assessing Attitudes

Autor/in	Roach, Ronald
Titel	Assessing Attitudes
Quelle	In: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 24 (2008) 26, S.16-19 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-5411
Schlagwörter	African Americans; Racial Bias; Race; Middle Class; Economically Disadvantaged; African American History; Elections; Political Campaigns; Surveys; Voting; Racial Identification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Rasse; Abstammung; Mittelschicht; Election; Wahl; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Abstimmung
Abstract	Typically, the period between the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in mid-January and the end of Black History Month in February sees serious and sober public discussions about the state of Black America. Those discussions have heated up earlier than expected due to the November release of a national survey on Black social progress by the influential Washington-based Pew Research Center entitled "Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class: Optimism About Black Progress Declines." This article describes how the survey highlights Black perceptions of a deepening social split between poor and middle-class African-Americans. To many observers, the survey confirms unsurprisingly that Black optimism about racial progress in the United States is at the lowest level it's been in more than two decades. It revealed that one in five African-Americans, or 20 percent, said Blacks fare better now than compared with five years ago; that is the lowest percentage since 1983, when the Pew Research Center found that only 20 percent also claimed improvement in their lives. The Pew Research Center survey has proven irresistible to the national media, especially to the reporters covering the Democratic presidential primaries. Given the historic nature of the Democratic race, which is pitting New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, a highly viable female candidate, against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, a highly viable African-American candidate, reporters have used the Pew survey to flesh out how class distinctions among Black voters might play out in the Democratic race. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10