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372 An American Dilemma
there seem to be certain interesting differences even when income is kept
constant. One may call these latter differences ^^cultural,” but that does not
mean that they have nothing to do with economics. In part they may depend
on traditions from a time when the Negro’s economic conditions were dif-
ferent. In part they may depend on circumstances inherent in the Negro’s
present economic status. We cannot go into this question and can only state
the factual situation.
For one thing, as we have already pointed out, the average food expendi-
ture per family often tends to be somewhat lower for Negroes than it
is for whites even in the same income group. This condition, of course, helps
to make the food consumption of Negroes different from that of whites
even at given income levels.-® The general differences for all income
groups combined, of course, are much larger.^®
If a group has a low average consumption of milk and vegetables, it does
TABLE 3
Percentage of Normal Nonrelief Families Who During a Survey Period of One Week
IN 1936 Failed to Consume Specified Foods
Southern Atlanta, Colum-
Southern Farm Counties Villages bia and Mobile
Family Type
and Kind
of Food
Negro
Owners,
Tenants
and
Croppers
White
Crop-
pers
White
Owners
and
Other
Tenants
Negro
Fami-
lies
White
Fami-
lies
Negro
Fami-
lies
White
Fami-
lies
All Normal Families
Fluid Milk 33.7 15.9 1 1.2 3L2 il3 29.0 9-3
Eggs 33-6 17.2 1 1.4 48.6 10.2 20.2 3-8
Fresh Fruits 66.2 47.1 33.7 51.6 10.6 27.6 5-«
Fresh vegetables 13.6 9.0 8.3 17.7 3.8 5.0 1-7
Potatoes and sweet
potatoes 48.0 29.8 26.2 43.6 13.3 29.2 8.9
Large Families •
Fluid milk 37.8 30.0 8.9 34.7 10,7 16.5 (b)
Eggs 37.1 19.4 1 1.4 54.1 16.8 13.3 (b)
Fresh fruit 68.7 51.4 31.3 56.9 16.8 25.1 (b)
Fresh vegetables 15.0 8.8 5.7 13.9 1.3 4.1 (b)
Potatoes and sweet
potatoes 48.1 31.8 17.3 45.8 15.3 25.4 (b)
Source: Adapted from U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Study of Consumer Pur-
chases, Urban Technical Series, Family Expenditures in Selected Cities, 1935-36, Bulletin No. ^8. Vol. 2,
Food (ip4o). Tabular Summary. Table 4: and U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Home Economics.
Consumer Purchases Study, Urban and Village Series, Family Food Consumption and Dietary Levels, Five
Regions, Miscellaneous Publication No. 452 (1941), Tables 30. 33. and 34. and Farm Series, Family Food
Consumption and Dietary Levels, Five Regions, Miscellaneous Publication No. 405 (1941). Tables 48, 51 and 52.
* Families of husband and wife and three to four children under 16; ana faniilies QQnsisting of husband,
wife, one child under 16, as well as four (o pthers, regardlg^s of age,
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