The family structure of African Americans has long been a matter of national public policy interest. A 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, known as...

alternative family forms, generating new versions of the American family. The nuclear family has been considered the "traditional" family structure since the...

African-American culture, also known as Black American culture or Black culture in American English, refers to the cultural expressions of African Americans...

An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the black populations of Africa. African American-related topics...

of West African and coastal Central African ancestry, with varying amounts of Western European and Native American ancestry. African-American history...

changes in African-American family structure at a time when 60% of Black children were born to single mothers. The Vanishing Family received numerous awards...

with African ancestry. Caribbean Jews both became members of white-run Jewish synagogues in the United States and helped form early African-American synagogues...

described the African-American family. She argues that the terminology used to define white families cannot be used to define African-American families because...

on African American genealogical research. The family histories of prominent people of African American descent are explored using traditional genealogic...

parallels between AAVE, West African languages, and English-based creole languages are existent but minor, with African-American Vernacular English genealogically...