Harry Holzer – What's Holding Back Black Boys & Men?
September 6, 2024
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September 6, 2024
Harry Holzer – What's Holding Back Black Boys & Men?
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1:02:37This episodeHarry Holzer – What's Holding Back Black Boys & Men?
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<p>Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349" target="_blank">https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881349</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=59s" target="_blank">0:59</a> How Harry met Glenn </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=224s" target="_blank">3:44</a> Black girls and women are doing relatively well. Why aren’t black boys and men? </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=681s" target="_blank">11:21</a> Harry: Some of the barriers are structural, some are cultural </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=1100s" target="_blank">18:20</a> The crude toolkit for fixing child support </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=1515s" target="_blank">25:15</a> Black teachers, tutoring, and “high-quality career and tech ed” </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=1904s" target="_blank">31:44</a> In schools, one size doesn’t fit all </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=2122s" target="_blank">35:22</a> Three ways to improve employment prospects </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=2350s" target="_blank">39:10</a> Glenn asks “the Chicago question” </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=2529s" target="_blank">42:09</a> Discrimination against ex-convicts </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=3038s" target="_blank">50:38</a> Immigration’s impact on black employment </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=3209s" target="_blank">53:29</a> Are too many people in prison? </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5iq9OvdX8&t=3367s" target="_blank">56:07</a> Harry: Progressives are oblivious to the backlash they generate</p><p>Recorded August 20, 2024</p><p>Links and Readings</p><p><a href="https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/six-hundred-atlantic/season/three/ep-6-a-conversation-about-racism-narratives-and-backlash.aspx" target="_blank">Harry and Glenn’s conversation about “racism, narratives, and backlash” with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Employment-National-Economic-Research-Project/dp/0226261646" target="_blank">Harry and Richard J. Freeman’s 1986 edited collection, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Employment-National-Economic-Research-Project/dp/0226261646" target="_blank"><em>The Black Youth Employment Crisis</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Two-Parent-Privilege-Americans-Stopped-Getting/dp/0226817784" target="_blank">Melissa Kearney’s book, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Two-Parent-Privilege-Americans-Stopped-Getting/dp/0226817784" target="_blank"><em>The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Unbound-Drifting-Parenthood-Marriage/dp/081572635X" target="_blank">Isabel V. Sawhill’s book, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Generation-Unbound-Drifting-Parenthood-Marriage/dp/081572635X" target="_blank"><em>Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Charter-School-City-Traditional-Education/dp/022669464X" target="_blank">Douglas Harris’s book, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Charter-School-City-Traditional-Education/dp/022669464X" target="_blank"><em>Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education</em></a></p><p><a href="https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Glenn_Loury/louryhomepage/cvandbio/Rebranding%20Ex-convicts%20(forthcoming%20JPET%202018).pdf" target="_blank">Glenn’s paper with Young-Chul Kim, “Rebranding Ex-Convicts”</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Declining-Significance-Race-Changing-Institutions/dp/0226901297" target="_blank">William Julius Wilson’s book, </a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Declining-Significance-Race-Changing-Institutions/dp/0226901297" target="_blank"><em>The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions</em></a></p> <br /><br />This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://glennloury.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">glennloury.substack.com/subscribe</a>