A Critical Assessment Of The Sullivan And Esmail Article "From Racial Uplift To Personal Economic Security"
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...is that the view many African-Americans had of education as a means to a better life has changed over the years. Specifically, the authors argue that from the end of the Civil War through the early decades of the 20th century, many blacks believed that education was a means to achieve not only financial success but also "equality, justice, and racial uplifting" but that this belief declined in the late part of the century (Sullivan and Esmail, 1995, p. 148). Today, young African-Americans view education as a means of ensuring "personal economic security," not as a way to achieve such ideals as "freedom, justice and racial betterment" (Sullivan and Esmail, 1995, p. 148).
Some of the points the authors discuss include the fact that black education, while it has improved, is still largely inferior to that of whites; and that earlier generations of blacks were much more interested in education, as they illustrate by...
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