Introduction—Forum on Race and the Family in the United States: The Other(s)

The so-called Moynihan Report of 1965 summarizes many of these ideas; see Daniel Patrick Moynihan , The Negro Family: The Case for National Action ( Washington, D.C.: Office of Policy Planning and Research, U.S. Department of Labor , 1965). See also Jacqueline Jones , Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present ( New York: Basic Books , 1985), 312-13.

Sharla M. Fett , Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations ( Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press , 2007); Amy S.Greenberg , Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 2005); and Daniel K. Richter , Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America ( Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press , 2001).