1. Long After the Alarm Went Off.
- Author
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Cose, Ellis
- Subjects
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UNITED States legislators , *SOCIAL problems , *DYSFUNCTIONAL families , *BLACK people , *FAMILIES , *WHITE people , *SINGLE-parent families , *SINGLE parents , *UNMARRIED fathers , *UNMARRIED mothers , *FATHERLESS families , *AFRICAN Americans , *SLAVERY , *RACISM ,UNITED States social conditions - Abstract
Focuses on Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Ideas that were championed by Moynihan while assistant Labor secretary under U.S. President Lyndon Johnson; Moynihan's conclusion that the Negro family was collapsing; Highlights of the so-called Moynihan Report; Moynihan's focus on the intergenerational impact of slavery and racism, as well as the transformation of the family; Observation that trends Moynihan saw in black families eventually became a reality for many whites; Suggestion that Moynihan misdiagnosed the breadth of the phenomenon; Comments of historian Stephanie Coontz, author of "Marriage, a History"; Moynihan's argument for true equality.
- Published
- 2005