Vanishing Black Family | Delano Squires

In this week’s podcast, Delano Squires joins me to discuss his new book The Vanishing Black Family. We discuss how slavery badly deformed but did not destroy the black family. And how until the Great Society welfare programs and the new ideologies of the 1960s, the black family had been remarkably stable. We also talk about the role of economic factors, and the so-called “marriageable men” problem. And Squires gives some of his ideas for what it would take to higher levels of family formation in the black community.