Research Catalog

Title

African American family life : ecological and cultural diversity / edited by Vonnie C. McLoyd, Nancy E. Hill, Kenneth A. Dodge.

Publication

New York : Guilford Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Dodge, Kenneth A.
• Hill, Nancy E.
• McLoyd, Vonnie C.

Description

xvi, 348 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Duke series in child development and public policy

Subjects

• African American families
• African Americans > Socialization
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Community life > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. 1. Emergent issues, themes, and conceptualizations. -- Introduction : Ecological and cultural diversity in African American family life / Vonnie C. McLoyd, Nancy E. Hill and Kenneth A. Dodge -- Sociocultural contexts of African American families / Nancy E. Hill, Velma McBride Murry, and Valerie D. Anderson -- Trends in African American child well-being, 1985-2001 / Vicki L. Lamb, Kenneth C. Land, Sarah O. Meadows, and Fasaha Traylor -- Racial wealth inequality and the Black family / William Darity, Jr. and Melba J. Nicholson -- New families, new functions : postmodern African American families in context / M. Belinda Tucker and Angela D. James -- pt. 2. African American families in community contexts. -- Marital relationships of African Americans : a contextual approach / Chalandra M. Bryant and K.A.S. Wickrama -- Work and African American family life / Vonnie C. McLoyd and Noemí Enchautegui-de-Jesús -- Homeplace and housing in the lives of low-income urban African American families / Linda M. Burton and Sherri Lawson Clark -- Religion in African American life / Jacqueline S. Mattis -- A model of extended family support : care of the elderly in African American families / Peggye Dilworth-Anderson and Paula Y. Goodwin -- pt. 3. Socialization processes in African American families. -- Family practices and school performance of African American children / Oscar A. Barbarin, Terry McCandies, Cheri Coleman, and Nancy E. Hill -- The cultural context of physically disciplining children / Kenneth A. Dodge, Vonnie C. McLoyd, and Jennifer E. Lansford -- African American families as a context for racial socialization / Stephanie I. Coard and Robert M. Sellers -- Beyond the birth family : African American children reared by alternative caregivers / Ellen E. Pinderhughes and Brenda Jones Harden -- Style matters : toward a culturally relevant framework for interventions with African American families / Howard C. Stevenson, Donna-Marie Winn, Chanequa Walker-Barnes, and Stephanie I. Coard.

ISBN

• 1572309954 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781572309951 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005006715

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library