African American family life
Subtitle: ecological and cultural diversity
By: edited by Vonnie C. McLoyd, Nancy E. Hill, Kenneth A. Dodge.
Contributors: McLoyd, Vonnie C.; Hill, Nancy E.; Dodge, Kenneth A.
Series: Duke series in child development and public policy
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: African American families.; African Americans -- Social conditions.; African Americans -- Socialization.; Community life -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Emergent issues, themes, and conceptualizations; title: Introduction: Context, adaptation, and policy / Vonnie C. McLoyd, Kenneth A. Dodge, and Nancy E. Hill; title: Sociocultural contexts of African American families / Nancy E. Hill, Velma McBride Murry, and Valerie D. Anderson; title: Trends in African-American child well-being, 1985-2001 / Vicki L. Lamb, Kenneth C. Land, Sarah 0. Meadows, and Fasaha Traylor; title: Racial wealth inequality and the Black family / William A. Darity, Jr. and Melba J. Nicholson; title: New families, new functions : postmodern African American families in context / Belinda Tucker and Angela D. James; title: Part II: African-American families in community contexts; title: Marital relationships of African Americans : a contextual approach / Chalandra Bryant and K. A. S. Wickrama; title: Work and African American family life / Vonnie C. McLoyd and Noemi Enchautegui-de-Jesus; title: Homeplace and housing in the lives of low-income urban African-American families / Linda M. Burton and Sherri Lawson Clark; title: Religion in African American family life / Jacqueline S. Mattis; title: A model of extended family support : care of the elderly in African American families / Peggye Dilworth-Anderson and Paula Y. Goodwin; title: Part II: Socialization processes in African American families; title: Family practices and school performance of African American children / Oscar Barbarin, Terry McCandies, Cheri Coleman, and Nancy Hill; title: The cultural context of physically disciplining children / Kenneth A. Dodge, Vonnie C. McLoyd, and Jennifer E. Lansford; title: African American families as a context for racial socialization / Stephanie M. Coard and Robert M. Sellers; title: Beyond the birth family : African American children reared by alternative caregivers / Ellen E. Pinderhughes and Brenda Jones Harden; title: Style matters : towards a culturally relevant framework for interventions with African American families / Howard Stevenson, Donna-Marie Winn, Chanequa Walker-Bames, and Stephanie M. Coard.