Robert Cherry – The State of the Black Family

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Glenn Loury

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Bob’s new book, The State of the Black Family: Sixty Years of Tragedies and Failures—and New Initiatives Offering Hope

7:02 Bob: “Liberals have given up” on changing black family dynamics

15:02 Two-parent families are preferable, but single-parent families need help

22:01 Do children help women organize their lives more effectively than men?

29:14 Is community college helping or hurting young black men?

38:38 How Bob thinks police and communities should deter violence

45:42 Work requirements with a human face

56:04 The moderate’s dilemma

Recorded May 4, 2023

Links and Readings

Bob’s new book, The State of the Black Family: Sixty Years of Tragedies and Failures—and New Initiatives Offering Hope

Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action

Herbert Gutman’s book, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925

Lawrence Mead’s book, Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship

Lawrence Mead on TGS

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0:52.9	I teach at Brown University where I am the Muckety Muck Professor of something.
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1:05.6	in New York City, John Paulson Senior Fellow and host of the Glend Show.
1:11.1	I'm joined this week at the Glend Show by Robert Cherry, who's an old friend of mine.
1:16.5	Robert Cherry is an economist.
1:19.0	He's emeritus, as you can see from looking at him, you know, a lot of people don't
1:25.5	retire.
1:26.5	I got colleagues who are older than me.
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