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.

Contributor Massey, Douglas S.

Imprint:Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, c2009.

Description326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:"January 2009."

Note:"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.

Note:Introduction: Moynihan redux: legacies and lessons / Douglas S. Massey, 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, Diana Karafin -- If Moynihan had only known: race, class, and family change in the late 20th century / Frank F. Furstenberg -- Fragile families and the reproduction of poverty / Sara McLanahan -- Romantic unions in the era of uncertainty: a post-Moynihan perspective on African American women and marriage / Linda M. Burton, M. Belinda Tucker -- Claiming fatherhood: race and the dynamics of paternal involvement among unmarried men / Kathryn Edin, Laura Tach, Ronald Mincy -- Welfare reform in the mid-2000s: how African American and Hispanic families in three cities are faring / Andrew Cherlin, Bianca Frogner, David Ribar, Robert Moffitt -- The new U.S. immigrants: how do they affect our understanding of the African American experience? / Frank D. Bean, Cynthia Feliciano, Jennifer Lee, Jennifer Van Hook -- The black family and mass incarceration / Bruce Western, Christopher Wildeman -- Race in the American mind: from the Moynihan Report to the Obama candidacy / Lawrence D. Bobo, 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: The Moynihan Report revisited: lessons and reflections after four decades.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.

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