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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1972)
M n«*8 Coi)«C* Station, Turns Wednesday, Aogast 18, 1972 THE BATTALION A&M sociologist says racial barriers are coming down Black lower-class yoath In the South hare hick hopw for the future and many don’t think that race will pcore an ohstaclo to their foala, accordinv to Dr. Arthur G. Coshy. a oocMofftat with the. Texas Agricultural Ex periment Station. Despite the limited attainment* of blacks and the present oppor tunities they hare, most hope to greatly improve their situation, research by Coaby and J. Steven Picou of Ohio State University indicates. ( Expectations—the black youth's realistic view of the future—are as high as the hopes, a study of urban and rural Leu Isis ns youth showed. Black males expecting to be in professional occupations composed 49 per cent of those from urban areas and 38 par cent from rural. Medium expectations with Jobs such as managers, skilled labor, clerical work and sales being representative, com posed 36 per cent of urban and 36 per cent of the rural youth. Black females had even greater expectations than the males. Only three per cent of the urban and one per cent of the rural youth expected low-level Jobs. Of the urban females, 64 par cent had high expectations and 33 per cent medium. Rural females split evenly at 49 per cent for both. “A rather surprising finding was that substantial proportions of the respondents indicated that they thought their race would have *no affect’ on the eventual attainment of their occupational goals,*’ 'Coaby said. “It had been expected that the perception of race as a block would rank very high among black students as a result of the sharp racial disparity found in the Deep South,” he sdded. In 40 out of 43 comparisons mads in an East Texas study over a two-year period, the pro portion of blacks who considered nee a block was leas than ex pected. In the study black and white attitudes were compared at their sophomore and senior years in high school. At their sophomore year 43 per cent of the blacks felt race would be a block, while nine per cent of the whites felt their race would be a block. In their senior year, little change was indicated, with 42 per cent of the blacks and three per cent of the whites re garding race as a factor. The data also suggested that a fairly large proportion of the stu dents thought their intelligence and limited knowledge of oppor tunities open to them would limit their chances of getting better jobs. Again in the Louisians .*?udy, approximately b7 per cent of the urban males and S7 per rent of the rural males thought that their “not being smart enough" would keep them back. Likewise, about 63 per cent of the rural males felt that their lack of knowledge would limit attain- Since educational achievements are linked closely with the Job a person will have, Coaby attempted to determine factors that youth felt would limit their education. “Lack of money was by far the most common response,” he said, with some 32 per cent of the rural males and 73 per cent of the urban males thinking this factor would keep them from achieving the education they desired. Substan tial proportions of both groups of females felt the same way. To Macks, the lack of tech nical school* or colleges nearby was also a factor. In their senior year, 46 per cent of the black youth felt that K would affect their careers, while only 36 per cent of the whites thought so. 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