Extended Family in Black Societies
Author : Edith M. Shimkin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110807769
Author : Edith M. Shimkin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110807769
Author : Elmer P. Martin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 1980-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226507972
Misunderstood and stereotyped, the black family in America has been viewed by some as pathologically weak while others have acclaimed its resilience and strength. Those who have drawn these conflicting conclusions have gnerally focused on the nuclear family—husband, wife, and dependent children. But as Elmer and Joanne Martin point out in this revealing book, a unit of this kind often is not the center of black family life. What appear to be fatherless, broken homes in our cities may really be vital parts of strong and flexible extended families based hundreds of miles away—usually in a rural area. Through their eight-year study of some thirty extended families, the Martins find that economic pressures, including federal tax and welfare laws, have begun to make the extended family's flexibility into a liability that threatens its future.
Author : Demitri B. Shimkin
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1974
Category : African American families
ISBN :
Author : Hill
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 1999-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761817646
Returning to his innovative work of twenty-five years ago, Robert Hill once more offers an incisive analysis of five key cultural strengths of African-American families. With compassion and eloquence, he argues that these existing strengths provide a solid foundation upon which to develop the kind of public policies and self-help initiatives that will truly promote the interests, not only of the African American community, but of our diverse nation as a whole.
Author : Natalia Sarkisian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136497471
Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family – with its exclusion of the extended family – is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This omission is tied to gender, race, and class. This book is broken down into six chapters. Chapter one discusses how, when promoting "family values" and talking about "family as the basic unit of American society," social commentators, politicians, and social scientists alike typically ignore extended kin ties and focus only on the nuclear family. Chapters two and three show that the focus on marriage and the nuclear family is a narrow view that ignores the familial practices and experiences of many Americans – particularly those of women who do much of the work of maintaining kin ties and racial/ethnic minorities for whom extended kin are centrally important. Chapter four focuses on class and economic inequality and explores how an emphasis on the nuclear family may actually promulgate a vision of family life that dismisses the very social resources and community ties that are critical to the survival strategies of those in need. In chapter five, the authors argue that marriage actually detracts from social integration and ties to broader communities. Finally, in chapter six, the authors suggest that the focus on marriage and the nuclear family and the inattention to the extended family distort and reduce the power of social policy in the United States.
Author : Sadye Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429974205
With numerous selections designed to reinforce the goal of empowering clients to take charge of their lives, this revised and updated second edition of The Black Family serves a two-fold purpose. It extends the small but growing body of strength-oriented literature to include African-American families and it serves as a natural extension of current texts on African-American families to provide social workers and the education community with a broader framework for understanding the needs of Black families. Offering both a research orientation and a practice perspective, this book should appeal to social work educators and practitioners involved in family services, health and mental health settings, and child and public welfare.
Author : Andrew Billingsley
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This 20th-anniversary edition of a modern classic by a leading black sociologist coincides with a rising awareness of how closely the fate of black families in America is related to the ultimate fate of America itself. Over 70,000 sold in previous editions.
Author : Charles V. Willie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0742570088
Charles Willie and Richard Reddick's A New Look at Black Families has introduced thousands of students to the intricacies of the Black family in American society since its publication in 1976. Using a case study approach, Willie and Reddick show the varieties of the Black family experience and how those experiences vary by socioeconomic status. In addition to examining families of low-income, working, and middle classes, the authors also look to the family experiences of highly successful African Americans to try to identify the elements of the family environment leading to success. The authors puncture the myth of the Black matriarchy prevalent in the popular imagination; and they explore a variety of family configurations, including a family with same-gender parents. The sixth edition has been reorganized and updated throughout. The new Part III—Cases Against and for Black Men and Women—unites two chapters from previous editions into a cohesive discussion of stereotypes and misunderstandings from both scholars and the mass media. Also, a new chapter on the Obama family offers support for cross-gender and cross-racial mentoring, and it demonstrates the value of extended family relations.
Author : Harriette Pipes McAdoo
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1412936373
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Author : Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1593853467
This classic text helps professionals and students understand and address cultural and racial issues in therapy with African American clients. Leading family therapist Nancy Boyd-Franklin explores the problems and challenges facing African American communities at different socioeconomic levels, expands major therapeutic concepts and models to be more relevant to the experiences of African American families and individuals, and outlines an empowerment-based, multisystemic approach to helping clients mobilize cultural and personal resources for change.