Disintegration (29 page)

1.
Mary Mederios Kent, “Immigration and America’s Black Population,”
Population Bulletin
62, 4 (2007): 12–14.

2.
District of Columbia registry of business names and owners, available at
http://app.dctaxi.dc.gov/taxilist.asp
.

3.
Pamela R. Bennett and Amy Lutz, “How African American Is the Net Black Advantage? Differences in College Attendance Among Immigrant Blacks, Native Blacks, and Whites,”
Sociology of Education
82 (January 2009): 70–100.

4.
Kay Deaux et al., “Becoming American: Stereotype Threat Effects
in Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Groups,”
Social Psychology Quarterly
70, 4 (2007): 384–404.

5.
Estimate per the Ethiopian Community Center, Washington, D.C.; author interview with a representative from the center.

6.
Historical narrative from research by the author for
Coal to Cream
(New York: The Free Press, 1999) and
Last Dance in Havana
(New York: The Free Press, 2004).

1.
Michael J. Rosenfeld and Byung-Soo Kim, “The Independence of Young Adults and the Rise of Interracial and Same-Sex Unions,”
American Sociological Review
70 (2005): 1.

2.
Jeffrey S. Passel, Wendy Wang, and Paul Taylor, “Marrying Out,” Pew Research Center, available at
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1616/american-marriage-interracial-interethnic?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress
.

3.
Entire text of speech available at
my.barackobama.com/page/content/hisownwords
.

1.
National Urban League,
The State of Black America 2010: Jobs: Responding to the Crisis
(New York: National Urban League, 2010), 1.

2.
U.S. Census Bureau, “U.S. Population Projections, Released 2008 (Based on Census 2000),” Summary Table 2, available at
www.census.gov/population/www/projections/
summarytables.html
.

3.
Shamara Riley, “Three Ways to Fix the ‘State of Black America,’ ”
thegrio.com
, March 26, 2010, available at
www.thegrio.com/specials/state-of-black-america/where-the-state-of-black-america-report-goes-wrong.php
.

4.
Magazine Publishers of America, “African-American/Black Market Profile,” New York, 2008, available at
www.magazine.org/ASSETS/2457647D5D0A45F7B1735B8ABCFA3C26/
market_profile_black.pdf
.

5.
The account of this incident is drawn from
Washington Post
reports over the course of several weeks, and reflects the best available description of the events and their motivation; see Eugene
Robinson, “The Invisible Underlcass,”
The Washington Post
, April 6, 2010.

6.
Elijah Anderson, “The Social Ecology of Youth Violence,”
Crime and Justice
24 (1998).

7.
Ibid.

8.
Ibid.

9.
Elijah Anderson,
Code of the Street
(New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999), 26–27.

10.
Anderson, “The Social Ecology of Youth Violence.”

11.
Sam Sanders, “Black Teenage Males Crushed by Unemployment,” National Public Radio, January 10, 2010, available at
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122367407
.

12.
Smiley’s comments available at
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/03/from-tavis-smiley-love-and-cri.html
.

13.
Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Cheryl Hill Lee,
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau, 2006), 34.

1.
Esteban J. Parra et al., “Estimating African American Admixture Proportions by Use of Population-Specific Alleles,”
The American Journal of Human Genetics
63, 6 (December 1998): 1839–51.

2.
“Optimism About Black Progress Declines: Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class,” Pew Research Center, November 13, 2007.