""Bravo to the authors! They have done an excellent job addressing
the issues that are critical to community members, policy makers
and interventionists concerned with Black families in the context
of our nation.""-Michael C. Lambert, "University of Missouri,""
Colombia"""
""African American Families is a timely work. The strength of
this text lies in the depth of coverage, clarity, and the ability
to combine secondary sources, statistics and qualitative data to
reveal the plight of African Americans in society.""-Edward
Opoku-Dapaah, "Winston-Salem"" State University"""
""African American Families is both engaging and challenging and
is perhaps one of the most important works I have read in many
years. This book will most certainly move the discourse of the
socio-economic conditions of black families forward, beyond the
boundaries already set by other books in the market. African
American Families is an excellent book whose time has come, and one
that I would most definitely adopt." "-Lateef O. Badru,
"University"" of Louisville"""
African American Families provides a systematic sociological
study of contemporary life for families of African descent living
in the United States. Analyzing both quantitative and qualitative
data, authors Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith identify the
structural barriers that African Americans face in their attempts
to raise their children and create loving, healthy, and raise the
children of the next generation.
Key Features: "Uses the lens provided by the race, class, and
gender paradigm": Examples illustrate the ways in which multiple
systems of oppression interact with patterns of self-defeating
behavior to create barriers that denymany African Americans access
to the American dream."Addresses issues not fully or adequately
addressed in previous books on Black families": These issues
include personal responsibility and disproportionately high rates
of incarceration, family violence, and chronic illnesses like
HIV/AIDS. "Brings statistical data to life": The authors weave
personal stories based on interviews they've conducted into the
usual data from scholarly(?) literature and from U.S. Census Bureau
reports."Provides several illustrations from Hurricane Katrina": A
contemporary analysis of a recent disaster demonstrates many of the
issues presented in the book such as housing segregation and
predatory lending practices."Offers extensive data tables in the
appendices": Assembled in easy-to-read tables, students are given
access to the latest national agencies data from agencies including
the U.S. Census Bureau, Centers for Disease Control, and Bureau of
Justice Statistics.
Intended Audience:
This is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and
graduate courses such as African American Families, Sociology of
the Family, Contemporary Families, and Race and Ethnicity in the
departments of Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology,
African American Studies, and Black Studies.
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