Events
PSC Brown Bag Seminar: Christina Cross
PSC’s Brown Bag seminar series typically convenes Mondays at noon, at ISR Thompson Room 1430, and on Zoom.
Christina Cross (Harvard; PSC alumna) joins us Nov. 18.
Stories Untold: African American Two-Parent Families & The Myth of Racial Equality
African Americans have the highest rates of single parenthood in the U.S., and this divergence from the two-parent family is routinely indicted as a fundamental cause of their disadvantaged position in society. One need only take a cursory glance at recent academic studies, news articles, policy briefs, or social media posts to witness the single-parent family being implicated as the source of an array of problems disproportionately affecting African American families. Implicit in this perspective on black disadvantage is the assumption that the positive outcomes that typically accompany living in a two-parent are equally available to all. However, a narrow focus on single parenthood cannot tell us the counterfactual: When African American children grow up in the socially promoted two-parent family, how do they fare? How do their outcomes compare relative to their white peers raised in this same family structure? Put differently, is the two-parent family the Great Equalizer many Americans imagine it to be? If not, why do opportunity gaps between the children of Black and white couples persist? And how should we view the role of family structure in contributing to racial inequality? In this Brown Bag talk presented Nov. 18, 2024 at the University of Michigan Population Studies Center, Christina J. Cross draws on data from three nationally representative surveys, addressing these questions and more.
Christina J. Cross is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research examines the role of the family in shaping individuals’ life chances and how its impact differs by their structural position in society. In particular, she explores how family structure, change, and dynamics influence people’s educational and economic outcomes—with special attention to if, how, and why these relationships differ by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
The PSC Brown Bag Series runs live and on Zoom; find more about the Center and its events, including future brown bag seminars, at https://psc.isr.umich.edu.
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