Eight Urban African American Families
Author : Jessie McFadden Muldrew
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : African American children
ISBN :
African American Families
Author : Faye Z. Belgrave
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2019-12-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781516598014
Book Description
Social Work Practice with African Americans in Urban Environments
Author : Halaevalu F.O. Vakalahi, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826130755
Book Description
The experiences of African Americans in urban communities are distinct from those of other ethnic groups, and to be truly understood require an in-depth appreciation of the interface between micro- and macro-level factors. This sweeping text, an outgrowth of a groundbreaking urban social work curriculum, focuses exclusively on the African-American experience through field education, community engagement, and practice. It presents a framework for urban social work practice that encompasses a deep understanding of the challenges faced by this community. From a perspective based on empowerment, strengths, and resilience; cultural competence; and multi-culturalism; the book delivers proven strategies for social work practice with the urban African-American population. It facilities the development of creative thinking skills and the ability to ìmeet people where they are,î skills that are often necessary for true transformation to take root. The book describes an overarching framework for understanding and practicing urban social work, including definitions and theories that have critical implications for working with people in such communities. It encompasses the contributions of African American pioneers regarding a response to such challenges as poverty, oppression, and racism. Focusing on the theory, practice, and policy aspects of urban social work, the book examines specific subsets of the urban African-American population including children, adults, families and older adults. It addresses the challenges of urban social work in relation to public health, health, and mental health; substance abuse; criminal justice; and violence prevention. Additionally, the book discusses how to navigate the urban built environment and the intersection between African Americans and other diverse groups. Chapters include outcome measures of effectiveness, case studies, review questions, suggested activities, and supplemental readings. Key Features: Fills a void in the literature on urban social work practice with African Americans Presents the outgrowth of a renowned urban curriculum, field education, research, community engagement, and practice Fulfills the requirements of the CSWE in the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards regarding diversity Synthesizes micro, mezzo, and macro content in each chapter Provides contributions from African-American pioneers in urban social work practice
Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation
Author : Margery Austin Turner
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780877667551
Book Description
For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed developments with healthy mixed-income communities; help residents relocate to affordable housing, often in the private market; and empower former public housing families toward economic self-sufficiency. The transformation has focused on deconcentrating poverty, but not on the underlying role of racial segregation in creating these distressed communities. In Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation, scholars and public housing officials assess whether--and how--public housing policies can simultaneously address the problems of poverty and race.
Eight Propositions
Author : Joe L. Rempson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1665502193
Book Description
Rempson takes issue with those who lay the plight of African Americans on racism, not seeing it, today, as a major obstacle to black progress. Rather, he traces the origin back to what he terms the African American Garden of Eden. In it, W. E. B. Dubois outlasted Booker T. Washington and fathered a tradition which Rempson argues has produced a victim identity and an emphasis on the system rather than the self. Only black males offer a way out, he declares, because it is entirely “our black males who are keeping us down and curtailing our progress,” in contrast to black females, who “are doing OK.” They are plagued by what Rempson calls the African American Male School Adaptability Crisis (AMSAC). Their academic performance ranks at the bottom, alone, below black female students and below white, Asian, and Hispanic male students. In large urban areas, their high school dropout rate is 59 percent and, nationally, they lag behind in college attendance and graduation rates. The outcome, Rempson argues, is dysfunctionality and the existence of hedonistic norms which hinder family and community stability. But while black males are the problem, Rempson contends, it is nevertheless only they who can solve it because research and experience show that it takes males to bring up and change other males. Though intended for everyone, he therefore writes his book to his fellow advantaged black males and makes a passionate plea for them to step up and, with the help of black females and of the nation, take the lead. As their guide, he has formulated eight propositions. Arrived at through an examination of impressively extensive data from numerous sources and disciplines, they are a marked departure from the customary. Most strikingly, delicate matters, such as those which pertain to intelligence quotient (IQ) and culture, are openly confronted and dealt with. But, Rempson writes, “unless confronted, we will not solve our problems.” “Nor,” he continues, “can we solve them unless we cut the umbilical cord to white America. We have no right to expect it to be our savior; nor are we justified in perceiving it as our oppressor.” Forcefully and finely written, Rempson’s book is a singular and courageous contribution. Alone, his eight propositions make it a worthy read.
Focus Groups
Author : Graham R. Walden
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810869691
Book Description
Physicians, health researchers, and nurses make extensive use of focus groups. Thus, researchers and readers need access to the realm of applications of focus group methodology in the wide variety of medical and health sciences. In this second installment of a two-volume examination of ten recent years (1998-2007) of focus group studies and research literature, author Graham R. Walden turns his attention from the arts, humanities, and non-medical sciences to the medical and health sciences, concentrating on a broad range of studies in books, book chapters, and journal articles that are available in English. Focus Groups, Volume II: A Selective Annotated Bibliography: Medical and Health Sciences covers over 500 articles on a multitude of topics in the medical and health sciences, such as the health profession and the practice of medicine, public health, and several different bodily systems and types of diseases. The annotations in this bibliography describe the content of a source document to help the reader discern whether pursuit of the full text is appropriate or desirable. This book offers significant benefits to all medical personnel; graduate and undergraduate students; professional focus group practitioners; and individuals seeking increased awareness of studies that have been conducted in the health arena.
Black Picket Fences
Author : Mary Pattillo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022602122X
Book Description
First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.
Culture Care Meanings, Expressions, and Cultural Lifeways of Urban African American Family Members Caring for Their Child with Autism
Author : Karen W. Burkett
Publisher :
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Delays in the diagnosis and misdiagnosis of African American children with autism represent a health care disparity in the United States, resulting in preventable delays in treatments that improve outcomes. Autism research suggests there are cultural factors that have led to these disparities. Understanding the cultural influencers necessitates an examination of the family, since the embodiment of culture and care is the family group. Outside the dominant culture, there are significant research gaps for understanding family care of the child with autism. One way to bridge the gap of these disparities is to discover from African American family members their care meanings, expressions and practices in the cultural care of their child with autism. An ethnonursing qualitative study, underpinned by the theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, was conducted to discover, describe and systematically analyze meanings of care and cultural ways of living among African American family members caring for their child with autism. Interviews and field observations were conducted within the natural environments of eight African American families, for a total of 24 family members, who care for their child with autism, aged 3 to 8 years old. Twenty eight general health and educational care participants were interviewed for an etic perspective of the phenomenon. The qualitative data were analyzed using Leininger's phases of ethnonursing analysis. Four universal themes, one diverse theme and one additional finding emerged from the data. For urban African American family members caring for their child with autism, the major universal culture care themes were: protection of others (child); faith in God and family; respect for and from others; and taking action for their child. A diverse theme of differences in responsible care and dependence on family was found among single and dual parent families. An additional finding of cultural pain was important to the study. Nurses and other autism professionals may be more likely to provide culturally congruent care when taking into account the findings of this study.
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925
Author : Herbert G. Gutman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1977-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0394724518
Book Description
An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood
Author : Crystal Lynn Webster
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1469663244
Book Description
For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by northern emancipation. But hidden in institutional records, school primers and penmanship books, biographical sketches, and unpublished documents is a rich archive that reveals the social and affective worlds of northern Black children. Drawing evidence from the urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Crystal Webster's innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War. Webster argues that young African Americans were frequently left outside the nineteenth century's emerging constructions of both race and childhood. They were marginalized in the development of schooling, ignored in debates over child labor, and presumed to lack the inherent innocence ascribed to white children. But Webster shows that Black children nevertheless carved out physical and social space for play, for learning, and for their own aspirations. Reading her sources against the grain, Webster reveals a complex reality for antebellum Black children. Lacking societal status, they nevertheless found meaningful agency as historical actors, making the most of the limited freedoms and possibilities they enjoyed.
