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...notes, "The characteristics, the attitudes, history, criminal-arrest records and other qualities of the young men themselves make them difficult to employ." Elijah Anderson, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of A Place on the Corner, a 1978 study of the lost men of the ghetto, believes that out of a misplaced sense of pride, many black youths are unwilling to accept the low- paying, low-prestige jobs that their forebears held. "They puzzle the older generation," says Anderson, "who say, 'I was brought up to do any kind of work I could in order...
Getting a good job in America often depends on being part of a culture that instills ambition, provides examples of the work ethic and, not least of all, offers personal connections to potential employers. But the migration of successful blacks out of the ghetto has left it populated by the less skilled and the less hopeful. Most ghetto shops and small businesses are run by outsiders. Says Harriet McAdoo of Howard University's Department of Social Work: "Unlike kids in black communities in earlier years, where poor and not- & poor were in the same school together, kids today...
...reason that Blacks become "suspects" whenever they enter retail establishments is that such a transformation protects others--WASPs, white ethnics, Jews, Asians, whomever--from having to reevaluate their images of Black people. If a sales clerk or undercover security guard has a mental picture of all Blacks as disreputable ghetto dwellers, then the presence of a petty bourgeois, upper-middle class, or top drawer Black person threatens his world view and, in a fashion, his own sense of security...
...guaranteed to knock a couple years off any poor pup's life. And "The Bells," especially, is a terrific way to round off your Poeportion. Find yourself getting sleepy? Little weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let 'er rrrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe... though they might make a mean team: "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...
...Remain in Light (1980) and the stunning Speaking in Tongues (1983) have a heavy soul inflection and an African accent. When Byrne collaborated with Rock Producer and Theorist Brian Eno on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981), the results were like trance music programmed for a ghetto blaster...