Harry Holzer – What's Holding Back Black Boys & Men?

Order Glenn's memoir, LATE ADMISSIONS: CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK CONSERVATIVE. Available here or wherever you get your books: https://wwnorton.com/books/97803938813490:59 How Harry met Glenn 3:44 Black girls and women are doing relatively well. Why aren’t black boys and men? 11:21 Harry: Some of the barriers are structural, some are cultural 18:20 The crude toolkit for fixing child support 25:15 Black teachers, tutoring, and “high-quality career and tech ed” 31:44 In schools, one size doesn’t fit all 35:22 Three ways to improve employment prospects 39:10 Glenn asks “the Chicago question” 42:09 Discrimination against ex-convicts 50:38 Immigration’s impact on black employment 53:29 Are too many people in prison? 56:07 Harry: Progressives are oblivious to the backlash they generateRecorded August 20, 2024Links and ReadingsHarry and Glenn’s conversation about “racism, narratives, and backlash” with the Federal Reserve Bank of BostonHarry and Richard J. Freeman’s 1986 edited collection, The Black Youth Employment CrisisMelissa Kearney’s book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling BehindIsabel V. Sawhill’s book, Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without MarriageDouglas Harris’s book, Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American EducationGlenn’s paper with Young-Chul Kim, “Rebranding Ex-Convicts”William Julius Wilson’s book, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit glennloury.substack.com/subscribe