Prison's Grip On The Black Family: Article Analysis

The City: Prison’s Grip on the Black Family is an article with a goal of given enlightenment into why we see such a large number of African Americans in U.S. prisons. This article uses individual examples of how society has brought these circumstances on to certain African Americans. It also gives statics and examples of laws that have been passed that set up African Americans to be at a major disadvantage in life, which results in the increased risk of being incarcerated. Each three of the major frameworks of perspective (functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist) would view this article very differently, but each would have very strong opinions about why this problem is happening and how it can be fixed. This article opens and
The would point out the town in Philadelphia in which has a 42 percent poverty rate and is 98 percent African American. The Functionalist would point to how by having this segregation you are not having assimilation, amalgamation, or ethnic pluralism, which is what the functionalist want. They would argue that is these segregations that are causing the increased poverty and incarceration rates of African Americans. So their solution would divide this ethnic enclaves and create a true melting pot. They would believe that by doing this the African American’s would start to have anglo-conformity and them fitting into society would result in them finding success and staying out of prison. Those that follow the Conflict Perspective would agree with Functionalist and believe that the issued that this article deal with has to do with societal wide problems. They would not agree with almost any of the Functionalist reasons or solutions to this said problems. This article actually aligns the most with the Conflict Perspective, so those with this perspective would have a lot to run with. This being said there are two main points that they would focus on one. The first would be that this article shows multiple times that the justice system is predisposed against African
They would believe it is the teaching that there is us/them boundaries that result in racism, that result in high incarceration of African Americans. They would say that the cops are taught from a young age that the "them" is the superpredator, which the article talks about is this new type of young criminal that is commonly portrayed as black. Then they would talk about how African Americans have been taught from a young age that the Cops are the "them" and the cops will not treat them fairly and will hurt them. The SIP would point out that this dynamic shown throughout the article, along with the racial and ethnic socialization is why African Americans have a higher incarceration