Rifts and Tides: The Road to Black Political Representation

[...] he observes that in recent decades some Blacks have gained access to professions and neighborhoods from which they previously would have been excluded. [...] he notes the simultaneous growth in single-headed households, in out-of-wedlock births, and in incarceration rates for Blacks in state and federal prisons. According to Dawson, as long as these two conditions are met, African Americans are likely to rely upon the BUH even in the post-Civil Rights era.