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Title: Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class
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Pattillo-McCoy, Mary Heflin, Colleen M. |
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Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class Presented: Chicago, IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1999 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Black Studies; Educational Attainment; Employment; Family Structure; Income; Kinship; Poverty; Racial Differences; Siblings; Socioeconomic Factors Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Tests the generalizability of qualitative findings of class diversity in the family networks of middle-class African Americans, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to assess the socioeconomic characteristics of siblings of middle-class blacks & whites. Bivariate analyses of three middle-class samples, drawn on the basis of income, occupation, & education, show race differences in the income, poverty status, public assistance receipt, employment, family composition, & educational attainment of siblings. Multivariate analysis reveals that having been poor as an adolescent reduces the effect of being African American on having a poor sibling & on having a sibling receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children, capturing the intergenerational component of poverty, as well as the recency of the black middle class. It is argued that the disparate family contexts in which middle-class blacks & whites are embedded have ramifications for their relative well-being & contribute to the fragility of the former. |
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Pattillo-McCoy, Mary and Colleen M. Heflin. "Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class." Presented: Chicago, IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, August 1999. |