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.

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Book
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English
Published/​Created
Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, c2009.
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326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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    Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 621 [More in this series]
    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781412974028 (cloth)
    • 9781412974011 (paper)
    • 1412974011 (paper)
    • 141297402X (cloth)
    OCLC
    294904607
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