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Coping with poverty : the social contexts of neighborhood, work, and family in the African-American community

Title
Coping with poverty : the social contexts of neighborhood, work, and family in the African-American community / edited by Sheldon Danziger and Ann Chih Lin.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Danziger, Sheldon.
  • Lin, Ann Chih.
Description
xvi, 284 p.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. Neighborhood: family and community as supports. Between a rock and a hard place: the labyrinth of working and parenting in a poor community / Sharon Hicks-Bartlett ; Communal isolation: narrowing the pathways to goal attainment and work / Gina Barclay-McLaughlin ; Negotiating adolescence in a Black middle-class neighborhood / Mary Pattillo-McCoy -- Pt. 2. Employment: from removing barriers to coping with obstacles. Dreamkeeping in the inner city: diminishing the divide between aspirations and expectations / Carla O'Connor ; On the outside looking in: low-income Black men's conceptions of work opportunity and the good job / Alford A. Young, Jr. ; Black male employment and self-sufficiency / Andrew L. Reaves -- Pt. 3. Parenting: from enforcing responsibility to enabling care. Mother, worker, welfare recipient: welfare reform and the multiple roles of low-income women / Ariel Kalil ... [et al.] ; Work preparation and labor market experiences among the urban, poor, nonresident fathers / Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. -- Conclusion. Social contexts in the making of public policy / Ann Chih Lin.
Call Number
JFE 00-9671
ISBN
  • 0472111450 (acid-free paper)
  • 0472086979 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
00020956
OCLC
43333537
Title
Coping with poverty : the social contexts of neighborhood, work, and family in the African-American community / edited by Sheldon Danziger and Ann Chih Lin.
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Danziger, Sheldon.
Lin, Ann Chih.
Research Call Number
JFE 00-9671
Sc E 02-1023
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