Beyond Civil Rights - The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy

Daniel Geary is Mark Pigott Associate Professor in U.S. History at Trinity College Dublin and author of Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought.

List of contents

Introduction. Crisis of Equality

Chapter 1. The Liberal Mindset

Chapter 2. Negro Equality—Dream or Delusion?

Chapter 3. The New Racism

Chapter 4. The Death of White Sociology

Chapter 5. Feminism and the Nuclear Family Norm

Chapter 6. From National Action to Benign Neglect

Epilogue. A Mixed Legacy

Notes

Archival Collections Consulted

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Daniel Geary is Mark Pigott Associate Professor in U.S. History at Trinity College Dublin and author of Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought.

Summary

The definitive history of the Moynihan Report controversy, Beyond Civil Rights examines the cultural assumptions embedded in the report's analysis of "the Negro family" and demonstrates its significance for liberals, conservatives, neoconservatives, civil rights leaders, Black Power activists, and feminists.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Geary
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2017
• EAN: 9780812223910
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2391-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous