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RSF 访问学者克里斯蒂娜·克罗斯讨论她的书《继承的不平等》
主要导航RSF 新闻博客观看 - 网络研讨会、视频和访谈收听 - 几个问题...每月简报注册我们的时事通讯博客RSF 访问学者克里斯蒂娜·克罗斯 (Christina Cross) 讨论她的书《继承的不平等》2025 年 12 月 12 日 克里斯蒂娜·克罗斯 (Christina Cross) 是一名 RSF 访问学者，也是《继承的不平等：为何黑人与白人之间持续存在机会差距》一书的作者在双亲家庭中长大的青少年。 《继承的不平等》是一项开创性的研究，挑战了美国社会福利政策的基本原则，并证明在双亲家庭中抚养黑人儿童并不能缩小生活结果中的种族差距。在基金会的一次新采访中，克罗斯讨论了她的发现。为了篇幅和清晰度，采访经过了编辑。克里斯蒂娜·克罗斯是哈佛大学社会学副教授。是什么促使你写《继承的不平等》？为什么研究家庭结构如何对儿童的生活机会产生不同的影响很重要？我个人与这项研究有联系，也是一项学术研究，并且对家庭结构和种族不平等这一广泛的话题普遍感兴趣。我来自威斯康星州密尔沃基，在我的社区长大，无论是在教堂、学校还是我的社区，许多人都在试图了解我的低收入非裔美国人社区中存在的一些挑战。经常出现的事情之一（几乎总是出现）是家庭结构的话题，以及这个想法
来源:罗素圣人基金会信息Christina Cross is an RSF visiting scholar and the author of Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families.Inherited Inequality is a groundbreaking study that challenges basic tenets of U.S. social welfare policy with proof that raising Black children in two-parent families does not close racial gaps in life outcomes. In a new interview with the foundation, Cross discusses her findings. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Christina Cross is an associate professor of sociology at Harvard University.
Q. What motivated you to write Inherited Inequality? Why is it important to examine how family structure differentially impacts children’s life chances?
I have a personal connection to this research and also an intellectual one, and just a general interest in this broad topic of family structure and racial inequality. I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and growing up many folks in my community—be it at church, at school, in my neighborhood—were trying to understand some of the challenges that existed in my low-income African American community. One of the things that frequently came up—almost invariably came up—was the topic of family structure and this idea that the way that children were being raised in my community was different from how it happened in the past. At that time, and even increasingly now, there were more children being raised by a single parent. There were fewer two-parent families, and many folks in my community believe that lied at the center of a lot of the challenges that we were facing and that we’re facing now.
Q. In what ways does society valorize marriage and two-parent households?
Q. Is marriage and living in a two-parent home a “Great Equalizer”? How do you measure that?
Q. Why have traditional models of family structure failed to anticipate or explain disparities in young adult outcomes between Black and White young adults raised in two-parent families?