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Reporters on the news board cover beats in the University and Cambridge. Write features and sports, news analyses and profiles. Go to Plains with Jimmy Carter, to Washington with Henry Kissinger, to New York with Pat Moynihan. The coverage is as good as you make it--and that means it must rival the best...
...pathology" rationale: the structural impetus toward black unemployment that has long plagued the U.S. economy. Contrary to Moynihan's pompous suggestion, blacks can hardly thank "the healing powers of the democratic ideal and the creative vitality of the Negro people" for any success they have gained in the past 15 years. Rather the Gutman book testifies that creativity prospered long ago in the "living space" provided by antibellum slavery. It may have been after slavery that blacks had to struggle to keep that adaptive spark alive as doors to Northern skills and skilled jobs slammed shut. An "unidentified 38-year...
Reporters on the news board cover beats in the University and Cambridge. Write features and sports, news analyses and profiles. Go to Plains with Jimmy Carter, to Washington with Henry Kissinger, to New York with Pat Moynihan. The coverage is as good as you make it--and that means it must rival the best...
...just nonsense to say that poor black families are nice sturdy institutions. Scholars know they are going to be attacked by black leaders if they don't come down on the right side." While conceding that it was not slavery that weakened the structure of black families, the Moynihan advocates say that post-1925 migration to the north and urbanization took a terrible toll, and that Moynihan's characterization of the black family today remains essentially correct. Says Moynihan: "Gutman's thesis does not centrally affect...
Gutman disagrees. He argues that Moynihan's false history of black home life led to a dangerous policy recommendation: the Moynihan report's startling call for the Government to help restructure black families. Though no program was spelled out in the report, Moynihan wanted to shore up the role of males in the black family. One of his ideas: every able-bodied black man should have a job, even if it meant reducing employment of black women. But Gutman thinks that because the severe problems of black families go back only to the Depression, they...