CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Racial-Ethnic Realities since the Civil Rights Act

Posted on February 5, 2014 in Brief Reports

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

Overview: Changing Racial-Ethnic Realities since the Civil Rights Act Remarks by: Stephanie Coontz Today the Council on Contemporary Families releases the second set of papers in a three part symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Yesterday researchers described the rearrangement of America’s religious landscape over the past half century. Today’s four […]

CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Changes in America’s Racial and Ethnic Composition Since 1964

Posted on February 5, 2014 in Brief Reports

By Raha Forooz Sabet University of Miami When the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, racial differences in the United States were almost literally black and white. In the early 1960s, 85 percent of the population was white and 11 percent was black. Less than four percent of the population was Latino and less […]

Topics of Expertise: African American Families / Asian & Asian American Families / Immigrant, Mixed Status & Transnational Families / Latino Families / Race, Ethnicity & Culture

CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Changes in Interracial Marriage

Posted on February 5, 2014 in Brief Reports

By Kimberlyn Fong Mount Holyoke College In the past 50 years there has been a true revolution in American attitudes toward interracial marriage. In the years when the Civil Rights Act was being debated, only four percent of Americans said they approved of marriages between white and blacks. Today 77 percent of the public approves, […]

Topics of Expertise: Biracial/ Multicultural Children and Interracial/ Multicultural Families / Race, Ethnicity & Culture

CCF Civil Rights Symposium: The State of Latino Children

Posted on February 5, 2014 in Brief Reports

By Rogelio Sáenz University of Texas at San Antonio Latinos are increasingly driving the demographic fortunes of the United States. Between 2000 and 2011, the number of white children in the country declined by 4.9 million, a decrease of 11 percent. Blacks and American Indians and Alaska Natives also saw their child populations decline. The […]

Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Economic Inequality / Latino Families / Race, Ethnicity & Culture

CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Religion and Relationships

Posted on February 4, 2014 in Brief Reports

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

The Council on Contemporary Families asked a dozen researchers to discuss what has changed in the past half century for each of the populations affected by the law – religious groups, racial and ethnic minorities, and women. Today, February 4, the Council is releasing an update on the changing religious landscape of America.

Topics of Expertise: Race, Ethnicity & Culture

CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Interfaith Marriage and Romantic Unions in the United States

Posted on February 4, 2014 in Brief Reports

David McClendon from the University of Texas-Austin, traces the increase in the proportion of marriages contracted between couples from different religious traditions. Even more dramatic has been the increase in the number of marriages where both partners maintain their separate beliefs and practices, rather than one or both changing so that their religions match. The proportion of mixed-religion marriages has doubled since the 1960s.

Topics of Expertise: Race, Ethnicity & Culture

CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Fifty Years of Religious Change: 1964-2014

Posted on February 4, 2014 in Brief Reports

In 1964 the provisions outlawing discrimination on the basis of religion were less controversial than those against discrimination on the basis of race and sex, even though blatant bigotry and outright violence against Catholics and Jews had been pervasive in American history right up through World War II. Prejudices had begun to ease by the early 1960s, but the Civil Rights Act remains an important safeguard for religious (and non-religious) minorities, according to Jerry Z. Park, Joshua Tom and Brita Andercheck, of Baylor University.

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Race, Ethnicity & Culture

CCF Equal Pay Symposium: 50 Years Since the Equal Pay Act of 1963

Posted on June 7, 2013 in Online Symposia, Press Releases

Experts: Stephanie Coontz / Virginia Rutter

Fifty years ago this week, on June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, amending the earlier Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, to “prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers.” So, how’s that going?

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Race, Ethnicity & Culture / Work & Family

The Gender Pay Gap by Race and Ethnicity

Posted on June 5, 2013 in Brief Reports

On average, white women earn 81 percent of what white men make. At first glance it may appear that there is more gender equality among minority men and women than among whites. Hispanic or Latina women make 88 percent of what Latinos do and African American women make 90 percent of what their male counterparts make. But when we add race to gender, these pay gaps become a veritable chasm. Read more to find out.

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / Race, Ethnicity & Culture

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Dolores Acevedo-Garcia

Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Director, Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy/ The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Kelly Campbell

Professor of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino

Daniel Carlson

Assistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah

Lori Delale-O’Connor

Assistant Professor of Education, University of Pittsburgh Center for Urban Education

Sinikka Elliott

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia

Jane Flax

Scholar in Residence, American University

Noni Gaylord-Harden

Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago

Natalie Hengstebeck

Postdoctoral Fellow, Scholars Strategy Network, Duke University

Velma McBride Murry

Professor of Human and Organizational Development, Society for Research on Adolescence, Society for Prevention Research, American Psy Association, Society for Research on Child Development

Chinyere Osuji

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University-Camden

Pamela J. Smock

Professor, Department of Sociology & Population Studies Center, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

David Trimble

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School; Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center; American Family Therapy Academy; Boston Center for Culturally Affirming Practices

Elizabeth Wildsmith

Deputy Program Area Director, Child Trends

Robert Wright

CEO, Wright Foundation

Colleen Wynn

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Indianapolis