Black Families: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138519640 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 420 str.

Harold E. Cheatham; James B. Stewart

Opis

 This volume presents alternative approaches toward understanding the special characteristics of black families. Extending a special issue of 'The Review of Black Political Economy', the book focuses on the economic circumstances and decision making of these families, employing Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. It examines the general responses of black families to various external factors such as economic systems, and to Internal factors such as interpersonal relationships.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Harold E. Cheatham, James B. Stewart