Book Description
An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.
Author : Herbert G. Gutman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1977-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0394724518
An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.
Author : Andrew Billingsley
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1968
Category : African American children
ISBN :
Author : Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807882658
After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.
Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN :
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Author : William Ryan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780394717623
Includes material on education, illegitimacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform.
Author : Robert Bernard Hill
Publisher : Emerson Hall Publishers
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Vonnie C. McLoyd
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1572309954
This volume brings together leading experts from different disciplines to offer new perspectives on contemporary African American families. A wealth of knowledge is presented on the heterogeneity of Black family life today; the challenges and opportunities facing parents, children, and communities; and the impact on health and development of key cultural and social processes. Comprehensive and authoritative, the book critically evaluates current policies and service delivery models and sets forth cogent recommendations for supporting families' strengths. Following an overview that traces the ongoing evolution of theory and research in the field, the book examines how African American families fare on numerous indicators of well-being. Throughout, contributors identify factors that promote or hinder healthy child and family development, writing from a culturally sensitive, nonpathologizing stance. The concluding chapter provides an up-to-date framework for culturally competent mental health practice.
Author : Franklin Frazier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0684832410
Originally published: Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, [1957].
Author : Andrew J. Cherlin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 1992-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674029491
With roller coaster changes in marriage and divorce rates apparently leveling off in the 1980s, Andrew Cherlin feels that the time is right for an overall assessment of marital trends. His graceful and informal book surveys and explains the latest research on marriage, divorce, and remarriage since World War II.Cherlin presents the facts about family change over the past thirty-five years and examines the reasons for the trends that emerge. He views the 1950s, when Americans were marrying and having children early and divorcing infrequently, as the aberration, and he discusses why this period was unusual. He also explores the causes and consequences of the dramatic changes since 1960--increases in divorce, remarriage, and cohabitation, decreases in fertility--that are altering the very definition of the family in our society. He concludes with a discussion of the increasing differences in the marital patterns of black and white families over the past few decades.
Author : Edward Franklin Frazier
Publisher :
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 1946
Category : African Americans
ISBN :