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Amazing grace : African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyers of traditional values

Title
Amazing grace : African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyers of traditional values / Dorothy Smith Ruiz ; foreword by Bert Hayslip.
Author
Smith-Ruiz, Dorothy.
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

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Description
xvi, 134 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Grandparents as parents > United States
  • African American grandmothers
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126) and index.
Contents
Slavery, family, and religion : the traditional roles of older African American women in the Antebellum South during the nineteenth century -- Related research : grandparent caregiving -- Methodology : the Custodial African American Grandmother Study -- Social and demographic characteristics -- Factors influencing life satisfaction among African American grandmothers raising grandchildren -- Social factors, health status, and depression -- Voices of custodial grandmothers : dominant themes.
Call Number
Sc E 04-1081
ISBN
0275980774 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004044377
OCLC
54414607
Author
Smith-Ruiz, Dorothy.
Title
Amazing grace : African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyers of traditional values / Dorothy Smith Ruiz ; foreword by Bert Hayslip.
Imprint
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 04-1081
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