Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families

Christina Cross decisively refutes culture-of-poverty narratives blaming family structure for persistent racial inequality. Marshaling extensive longitudinal data, Cross shows that Black kids raised in two-parent homes still fare worse than white counterparts, inviting a wholesale rethinking of the logics underlying US social-welfare policy.

• | Author: Christina J. Cross
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 16, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674278493
• | ISBN-10: 0674278496