The following analysis addresses one of the most important developments affecting the economic, social, and political life of African Americans in the new century. Generational cleavages are altering the bedrock of both national life and black life in the United States. These changes are governed by time and history, and they reflect the nation's economic, political, and social change as well as the differences in personal experiences that comprise and result from those changes.

It should be understood at the outset that this study is but the beginning of an effort by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies to understand and anticipate the consequences of these changes for the future of African Americans. These differences only began to surface in Joint Center national opinion polls in the early 1990s. Since then, there has been an accumulation of evidence allowing for not only the documentation, but the investigation, of these shifting policy views as a function of generational identity.

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Date Published: 2001

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