> On Monday, October 11, 1999 at 13:15:10 (-0400) Louis Proyect writes: > >>Did Cockburn write about that? I don't remember. In any case, it > >>sounds like this draws on research by Arline Geronimus, who should > >>get the credit for it, since she's gotten mostly grief from moralists > >>left and right. She also argues that it makes sense for poor black > >>women who want kids to do so by multiple fathers, since the risk of a > >>father being killed or jailed is so high, and since multiple fathers > >>expand the network of "fictive kin," who are an essential support > >>network to such a despised and embattled population. I wrote up her > >>work in LBO a few years ago, and it drew more hostile responses than > >>anything I've done except my critique of Seymour Melman. It's amazing > >>how many progressive-seeming people are scandalized by Geronimus' > >>work. > >> > >>Doug > > > >It probably was in LBO, now that I think about it. I did a Nexis search on > >Cockburn plus related words like pregnancy and welfare, but could find > >nothing that made this point. > > I could swear that Cockburn did write about this. He drew on the work > of some woman, whose name I forget (some sort of anthropologist??), > and he did give her credit. I can't remember if this was in > Counterpunch, The Nation (I think so), or in his book *The Golden Age > Is In Us*. Or, maybe it was indeed LBO... Didn't Cockburn once do a piece a while ago on the work of Mike Males, who argued that it was rational for black women to bear children at a young age because (I think) family networks were stronger, shorter life expectancies, toxicity of the environment many African Americans live in, etc. mark __________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
