"The participant observer studies indicated that feelings of personal inadequacy led black men to reject the unskilled and poorly paid jobs open to them,to denigrate the kind of work these jobs represented, and to seek gratification through more accessible channels,such as sexual liaisons or intoxication" (Massey, Denton 171).

Massey, Douglas S. and Denton, Nancy A. American Apartheid. London: Harvard University Press, 1993

Well I was thinking about doing the difference between the incarceration rates between blacks and whites in the US and why and how that is so. This quote talks about establishing why blacks are more likely to go to prison than whites, and it is important to support my claim that the former are more highly incarcerated than the latter. By studying the reasons for the problems in the first place, I could decide how to decrease the rate of imprisonment for both groups, or even find out whether there are some other factors coming into play that I have never thought of before.