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The Moynihan Report Revisited: A conference co-sponsored by The American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Harvard University Sociology Department and W.E. B. Du Bois Institute on African and African American Research.

The Black Family: Then and Now

A hallmark of the Moynihan report was its emphasis on family instability as an enabling condition for the perpetuation of poverty. This session examines what we have learned about the black family in four decades of research, and whether and how changes in family structure are related to poverty and the perpetuation of socioeconomic disadvantage.

"Fragile Families and the Reproduction of Poverty"
Sara McLanahan

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"If Moynihan Had Only Known: Race, Class, and Family Change in the Late 20th Century"
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.

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"Marriage, Family, and African American Women"
Linda Burton
(co-authored with M. Belinda Tucker)

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"Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Paternal Involvement among Unmarried Men"
Kathryn Edin
(co-authored with Laura Tach and Timothy Nelson)

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Q & A on The Black Family
Questioning begins with William Julius Wilson; Responses by: (1) Edin; (2) Furstenberg; (3) Burton; (4) McLanahan; (5) Furstenberg

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