Poor Reason: Culture Still Doesn’t Explain Poverty

by Stephen Steinberg

Stephen Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, debunks the argument that the source of African American poverty is culture. "The question is not whether culture matters," he writes, "but whether it is an independent and self-sustaining factor in the production and reproduction of poverty."

12 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 24, 2012