Contemporary African American Families: Achievements, Challenges, and Empowerment Strategies in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780367875084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Dorothy Smith-Ruiz; Sherri Lawson Clark; Marcia Watson

Opis

This volume provides a nuanced understanding of the ways in which contemporary contexts of global economies, changes in public policies, tracking in education, health disparities, parenting practices and changes in family structure shape the present and future lived experiences of African-American families.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments (Dorothy Smith-Ruiz)

Foreword (Earl Smith)

1. Introduction and Overview (Dorothy Smith-Ruiz)








2. Collateral Damage: The Impact of the Incarceration of African American Men on the Mothers and Children they Leave Behind (Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery)








3. Examining Fatherhood within the Black Family (Jeffrey Shears and Joshua Kirven)








4. Grandparents’ Caregiving during the Context of a Natural Disaster (Priscilla Gibson)











5. Mental and Physical Health Disparities and Older African Americans (Martha Crowther, Cassandra D. Ford, and Latrice Vinson)











6. The School-to-Postsecondary Pipeline: Proposing Proactive Measures for African American Youth’s Educational Success (Chance W. Lewis, Marcia Watson, Tonya J. Rose)








7. Family Matters: The Role of Familial Support in the Success of African American Female STEM Majors (Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Ashley Dawn Parker, Elizabeth Stearns, Melissa Dancey, and Stephanie Moller)








8. Home is Where the Wealth is: African Americans and the Housing Debacle (Sherri Lawson Clark)








9. Brew City Bellwether: The Changing Landscape of the Black Family in Milwaukee (Robert S. Smith and William I. Tchakirides)








10. The At-Opportunity Policy Agenda: The Charlotte Region’s Black Families, Education, Economics, and Philanthropy (Patrick C. Graham)











11. ‘You Must Learn’: How Racial & Ethnic Socialization Affirms Black Identity among Black Americans and West Indians (Anthony Greene)











12. Black Families Today: The Genius of Dr. Charles Vert Willie. (Dorothy Smith-Ruiz)








13. Epilogue: The Future of African American Families (Dorothy Smith-Ruiz)

O autorze

Dorothy Smith-Ruiz is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Sherri Lawson Clark is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Marcia Watson is Assistant Professor of Elementary Education at Towson University in Baltimore County, Maryland.