Word: banfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BANFIELD picks and chooses his "facts" well to support that contention...
...brighten the urban picture, he uses Bernard J. Frieden's data about the decline in the percentage of Negro families occupying substandard housing. But Banfield chooses not to mention Frieden's caution that, because of the increase in the black population, the number of nonwhite families in inadequate housing has increased...
...Banfield rejects community action by quoting Marris and Rein ("Dilemmas of Social Reform"): "... the reforms had not evolved any reliable solutions." It is unfortunate that he did not go three sentences further to: "... at least in these five years community action developed a range of skills, concepts, organizations, models of action, which equipped the search with much more sophisticated means...
NAME ANY "problem" that still concerns some who lack Banfield's curious concepts; he has a surprising view...
...Riots? Banfield's chapter title alone should make his opinion apparent: "Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit." Thus, "It is naive to think that efforts to end racial injustice and to eliminate poverty, slums and unemployment will have an appreciable effect upon the amount of rioting that will be done in the next decade...