The Moynihan Report, the Watts Riots, and the Tropes of Reconstruction

This article describes Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s “The Negro Family: The Case For National Action” (known as the Moynihan Report, 1965) as an example of a Reconstructivist impulse in American cultural history. Sandwiched, as it was, between the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Watts Ri...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerald Naughton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2018-04-01
Series:Intersections
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.intersections-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Gerald-Naughton-article.pdf