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...supported his assertion that this view was commomplace by quoting Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government and now U.S. Ambassador to India, as saying, "The winds of Jensenism are blowing through Washington with gale force...
Time on the Cross addresses itself to these questions anyway, in one of its most important chapters, on the slave family. Fogel and Engerman maintain that slave families were strong, nuclear patriarchal families--just the reverse of the stereotype popularized by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, or the picture of uprooted slaves forced to recognize only their masters as father figures that Stanley M. Elkins '49 paints in his eloquent Slavery...
Another group, including former Harvard professors Daniel P. Moynihan and Edward Banfield, claim that black children are unable to learn because of their allegedly inferior culture. Through the process William Ryan has aptly characterized as "blaming the victim," these men would have us believe that if many black people live in slums it must be because they like it there--not because they can't get housing elsewhere. Their "culture of poverty" notions do not point to the main sources of poverty in America: racism, unemployment, and lack of money to buy decent health care, decent homes, decent services...
Both David Evans, a Harvard College admissions officer, and Dean McKinney told us that black students often do not apply to Harvard because they perceive it as a racist institution, committed to protecting "scholars" like Herrnstein and Moynihan while systematically discriminating against black students. That the officials responsible for GSAS admissions choose to mask their own biases by slandering minority applicants leads us to conclude that the perceptions of those black students are correct...
...backgrounds fared no better than those with rural backgrounds; blacks on the average received at least as many years of education as more-successful immigrant groups; many ethnic groups were more segregated from the rest of society than were blacks; and black families until quite recently rarely fit Daniel Moynihan's matriarchal stereotype. He concludes that low social mobility among blacks resulted partially from "the nature of black culture," but mostly from discrimination...