Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:52:04 -0500 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-FEM: Roediger Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The same can be said--to a certain extent--for the concept of >"skill," which relates to the ways in which the ideas of "socialization" >and "employability" are put in the service of what you call an >eliminationist program against blacks. All blacks, or just those marginalized as the "underclass"? Black poverty rates are at an all-time low, and black incomes have been gaining on white ones at every income level for the last 5-7 years. Certainly the (highly racialized) war on welfare is driving lots of black Americans to the wall, but that's not the case for most black households. Doug
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