African American Family Life: Ecological and Cultural Diversity

Table of contents

• African American Family Life i
• Title Page iii
• About the Editors v
• Contributors vii
• Series Editors' Note xi
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Contents xv
• Part I - Emergent Issues, Themes, and Conceptualizations 1
• Chapter 1 - Introduction Ecological and Cultural Diversity in African American Family Life 3
• Chapter 2 - Sociocultural Contexts of African American Families 21
• Chapter 3 - Trends in African American Child Well-Being, 1985–2001 45
• Chapter 4 - Racial Wealth Inequality and the Black Family 78
• Chapter 5 - New Families, New Functions Postmodern African American Families in Context 86
• Part II: African American Families in Community Contexts 109
• Chapter 6 - Marital Relationships of African Americans a Contextual Approach 111
• Chapter 7 - Work and African American Family Life 135
• Chapter 8 - Homeplace and Housing in the Lives of Low-Income Urban African American Families 166
• Chapter 9 - Religion in African American Life 189
• Chapter 10 - Model of Extended Family Support Care of the Elderly in African American Families 211
• Part III - Socialization Processes in African American Families 225
• Chapter 11 - Family Practices and School Performance of African American Children 227
• Chapter 12 - The Cultural Context of Physically Disciplining Children 245
• Chapter 13 - African American Families as a Context for Racial Socialization 264
• Chapter 14 - Beyond the Birth Family African American Children Reared by Alternative Caregivers 285
• Chapter 15 - Style Matters Toward a Culturally Relevant Framework for Interventions with African American Families 311
• Index 335

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