Daniel Geary is the Mark Pigott Assistant Professor of U.S. History at Trinity College Dublin and the author of Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy (University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2015).
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Liberals Need to Admit the Moynihan Report Failed To Produce Progressive Reforms
The time for liberal apologetics for the report is long past overdue.
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The Moynihan Report Is Turning 50. Its Ideas on Black Poverty Were Wrong Then and Are Wrong Now.
African-Americans' family structure is not the “master problem” of racial inequality in America.
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