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...
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University of Bucharest
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Intersections |
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| Online Access: | http://www.intersections-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Gerald-Naughton-article.pdf |