1st Edition
Black Families Interdisciplinary Perspectives
420 Pages
by
Routledge
420 Pages
by
Routledge
420 Pages
by
Routledge
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The condition and characteristics of the black family have been subjects of intense debate since at least the 1960s, when the Moynihan Report and the culture of poverty theses held sway. Since then a consistent theme has been that black families are pathological. Despite the fact that research has been inconclusive and contradictory, political debate and policy have been strongly influenced... Read more
1: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives; 1: Back to Basics: The Significance of Du Bois’s and Frazier’s Contributions for Contemporary Research on Black Families; 2: Ecological Perspectives; 2: Black Families and the Black Church: a Sociohistorical Perspective; 3: Black Hospitals: Institutional Impacts on Black Families; 4: Federal Government Policies and the “Housing Quotient” of Black American Families; 5: Economic Forces, Structural Discrimination and Black Family Instability; 3: Family Form and Functioning; 6: Parental Values Transmission: Implications for the Development of African-American Children; 7: Sickle Cell Anemia, Child Competence, and Extended Family Life; 8: Gender Differences in the Perception of Black Male-Female Relationships and Stereotypes; 9: Polygamy and the Declining Male to Female Ratio in Black Communities: a Social Inquiry; 4: Health Outcomes and Economic Resources; 10: Hypertension as a Manifestation of the Stress Experienced by Black Families; 11: The Employed Black: the Dynamics of Work-Family Tension; 12: Values, Beliefs, and Welfare Recipiency: is there a Connection?; 5: Intracultural Perspectives; 13: Family Environment, Educational Aspiration, and Performance in St, Vincent; 14: Child Care and Female Employment in Urban Nigeria; 15: West Indian Families in the United States; 6: Policy and Social Service Delivery Systems; 16: Developing Intervention Models for Black Families: Linking Theory and Research; 17: Counseling Black Families at Inner-City Church Sites; 18: Empowering Black Families; 19: Retrospective and Exegesis: Black Families Reconceptualized
Biography
Harold E. Cheatham, James B. Stewart
