The Moynihan Report revisited : lessons and reflections after four decades / special editors of this volume, Douglas S. Massey [and] Robert J. Sampson ; Phyllis Kaniss, executive editor.

Format:

Book

Microformat

Contributor:

Massey, Douglas S.

Sampson, Robert J., 1956-

Kaniss, Phyllis C.

American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Series:

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 0002-7162 ; v. 621.

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 621

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003.

Moynihan, Daniel P.

African American families--Social aspects.

African American families.

African American families--Economic aspects.

African Americans--Employment.

African Americans.

Racism--Social aspects--United States.

Racism.

Racism--Economic aspects--United States.

Racism--Economic aspects.

Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction : Moynihan redux : legacies and lessons / Douglas S. Massey and Robert J. Sampson

Foreword : Pat Moynihan thinks about families / James Q. Wilson

Foreword : The Moynihan Report and research on the Black community / William Julius Wilson

The labor market and young black men : updating Moynihan's perspective / Harry J. Holzer

Bayesian bigot? Statistical discrimination, stereotypes, and employer decision making / Devah Pager and Diana Karafin

If Moynihan had only known : race, class, and family change in the late twentieth century / Frank F. Furstenberg

Fragile families and the reproduction of poverty / Sara McLanahan

Romantic unions in an era of uncertainty : a post-Moynihan perspective on African American women and marriage / Linda M. Burton and M. Belinda Tucker

Claiming fatherhood : race and the dynamics of paternal involvement among unmarried men / Kathryn Edin, Laura Tach, and Ronald Mincy

Welfare reform in the mid-2000s : how African American and Hispanic families in three cities are faring / Andrew Cherlin ... [et al.]

The new U.S. immigrants : how do they affect our understanding of the African American experience? / Frank D. Bean ... [et al.]

The Black family and mass incarceration / Bruce Western and Christopher Wildeman

Race in the American mind : from the Moynihan Report to the Obama candidacy / Lawrence D. Bobo and Camille Z. Charles

Racial stratification and the durable tangle of neighborhood inequality / Robert J. Sampson

Moynihan was right : now what? / Ron Haskins

Quick read synopsis.

Notes:

"January 2009."

"The articles in this volume are based on presentations given at a conference held at Harvard University in September 2007, sponsored by the American Academy of Political and Social Science; the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, and the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University"--P. 6.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781412974028

141297402X

OCLC:

294904607