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Racism's Hidden Toll

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Racism's Hidden Toll By: Ryan Blitstein June 15, 2009 In the fall of 1976, Arline Geronimus began living in two separate, unequal worlds. At Princeton University, the political theory major became a research assistant to Charles Westoff, a professor who studied teen pregnancy among the urban poor. Down the road at Planned Parenthood in Trenton, N.J., she spent time with real-life, impoverished pregnant teens. A self-assured, middle-class Jewish girl from Brookline, Mass., Geronimus shuttled between the extremes of haves and have-nots, eventually spotting a chasm between the theories of Princeton researchers and the experiences of the women she taught. Geronimus would sit in on the professors' meetings, listening to them discuss how young girls, ignorant of family planning, were ruining their lives with accidental pregnancies...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 18, 2009 (boomark / ).