Racial Minorities Then and Now: The Continuing Significance of Race

Moynihan's (1965) controversial report on the negro family brought even more attention to the poor population, as well as the stinging rebuttal of the report by many African American family researchers who underscored Moynihan's ethnocentrism and pathological paradigm. [...] a new wave of strengths-based scholarship emerged in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s to offset the overemphasis on pathology that had been used to study black and other people-of-color families.\n The authors contend that a major hindrance to the integration of this framework is its lack of documentation of evidence-based practice.