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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the issue of the African American family and the impacts that this social structure has on the American identity. This paper considers varied views on the African American family. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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national identity. Perspectives on the African American family, for example, have changed substantially in recent years and placing these perspectives in a historical context provides some basis for understanding
the influence of this racial collective. The Black Family In recent years, studies of the African American family have historically focused on the pathology or the generalized or
perceived dysfunction of these families (Mosely-Howard and Evans, 2000). What is often lost in this kind of assessment of the African American family is the fact that diverse relationships
exist in the African American family that can be understood in terms of both pathology and resiliency, and that theoretical perspectives can be applied to understanding the components of the
African American family just as they can be applied to views of families of other ethnicity. In his 1965 report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,"
Daniel Patrick Moynihan considered the fundamental problems that he viewed as central to the condition of the Black family, and presented a view of the most troubled portion of American
society. Moynihans (1965) report stated that the deterioration of the Black family was the major component in undermining any possible gains made by the Black community as a
whole, and viewed the family structure as a divisive and prevalent force in the problem of social inequities and negative Black social identification. It was Moynihans (1965) contention that
the failing foundation in the post-Civil War Black slave family defined the central component of the social decline in the post-World War II era, and this led to views of
the pathology of the African American family. Herbert Gutman, in his work The Black Family in Slaver and Freedom recognized the failings of the Moynihan report
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