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Tally's Corner
The early 1960's can be considered the "civil rights era's legislative phase… as well as the time of the Johnson administration's 'War on Poverty.'" (Greenhouse, 2011, p. 148) It was a time when one in four Americans were considered "poor," a number that had been steadily rising since the end of the Second World War in 1945. And of those 25% of Americans who were considered poor, 30% of them were African-Americans. (Greenhouse, 2011, p. 148) Liebow's Tally's Corner is an examination of the root causes for poverty among America's African-American population in the early 1960's. At that time it was generally believed by most white Americans that the large percentage of African-Americans living below the poverty level was the result of racial issues particular to the African-American race. In other words, because so many African-American families were in poverty, it was assumed that the cause had to have something to do with their race. In the early 1960's it was the misconceived idea that African-American men had a "lack of motivation to achieve economic self-sufficiency," that guided public perception and thus public policy. (Greenhouse, 2011, p. 149)
Unemployment among African-American men is one of the biggest public policy problems that the author examined. The overarching misperception that African-American men do not want to get good jobs and make their way into the middle class and how this is the basis for public...
The author clearly demonstrated that the men with which he had associated were not lazy, or lacking in the desire to succeed, but were faced a number of outside misperceptions that led to their lack of opportunity. As Liebow put it: "the job fails the man and the man fails the job." (Liebow, 2003, p. 63) Another major public policy issue faced by Liebow in Tally's Corner is the problem with absentee fathers among the African-American population. And as the author asserted "this absence of father is one of the chief characteristics of the father-child relationship." (Liebow, 2003, p. 73) Again society puts the blame on the absentee fathers without understanding the root causes for their absence, which actually have larger social root causes.
Liebow discovered that the men on the street corner were wrongly being accused by society of being lazy and un-ambitious. He used the response of a truck driver looking for day laborers as his example because many of those he met were unwilling to take those menial jobs. But Liebow discovered that this was because of a "complex combination of attitudes and assessments," which were based on life experiences. (Liebow, 2003, p. 71) Take Leroy, for instance, who's life experiences taught him that the only future he had was a future loaded with "trouble," which made him ever ready to leave town on a moment's notice. (Liebow, 2003, p. 70) Because of Leroy's…
References
Greenhouse, Carol. (2011). The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States. Philadelphia, PA: The University of Philadelphia Press. Print.
Hunt, Morton. (1985). Profiles of Social Research: The Scientific Study of Human
Interactions. Russell Sage Foundation. Print.
Liebow, Elliot. (2003). Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Lanham,
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