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Article: Twice as Less.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 4, 1988
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Twice as Less
THE DEBATE over the black underclass is only now recovering from the reaction to Daniel Patrick Moynihan's The Black Family. Published in 1965, Moynihan's book was an early, frank attempt to show the connection between black poverty and the dissolving black family. There were charges of racism, and many of Moynihan's sympathizers were intimidated into disavowing his work. Except from conservatives, little of value has been heard on the subject since. Two new books, however, show modest signs of a fresh willingness on the part of American liberals to participate in some open debate on the problem of what really is keeping blacks down. Both Eleanor ...