Extended Family in Black Societies
Author | : Edith M. Shimkin |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110807769 |
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Author | : Edith M. Shimkin |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110807769 |
Author | : Elmer P. Martin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1980-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780226507972 |
Misunderstood and stereotyped, the black family in America has been viewed by some as pathologically weak while others have acclaimed its resilience and strength. Those who have drawn these conflicting conclusions have gnerally focused on the nuclear family—husband, wife, and dependent children. But as Elmer and Joanne Martin point out in this revealing book, a unit of this kind often is not the center of black family life. What appear to be fatherless, broken homes in our cities may really be vital parts of strong and flexible extended families based hundreds of miles away—usually in a rural area. Through their eight-year study of some thirty extended families, the Martins find that economic pressures, including federal tax and welfare laws, have begun to make the extended family's flexibility into a liability that threatens its future.
Author | : Osei-Mensah Aborampah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9781592218127 |
Author | : Lori L. Tharps |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0807076791 |
Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics. Groundbreaking and urgent, Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted.
Author | : Harriette Pipes McAdoo |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1412936373 |
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Author | : Kevin Dawson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2021-05-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0812224930 |
Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
Author | : Lee N. June |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780310455912 |
In the fifteen chapters that comprise this comprehensive look at the Black family today, each of the contributors deals with an aspect of family life that pertains especially to the Black community. The topics include the extended family, single female parenting, teenagers, male-female relationships, the role of the church, pastoral counseling, marital counseling, sexuality, money management, sexual abuse, drug abuse, and evangelizing the Black male.
Author | : Roberta L. Coles |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231143532 |
Common stereotypes portray black fathers as being largely absent from their families. Yet while black fathers are less likely than white and Hispanic fathers to marry their child's mother, many continue to parent through cohabitation and visitation, providing caretaking, financial, and other in-kind support. This volume captures the meaning and practice of black fatherhood in its many manifestations, exploring two-parent families, cohabitation, single custodial fathering, stepfathering, noncustodial visitation, and parenting by extended family members and friends. Contributors examine ways that black men perceive and decipher their parenting responsibilities, paying careful attention to psychosocial, economic, and political factors that affect the ability to parent. Chapters compare the diversity of African American fatherhood with negative portrayals in politics, academia, and literature and, through qualitative analysis and original profiles, illustrate the struggle and intent of many black fathers to be responsible caregivers. This collection also includes interviews with daughters of absent fathers and concludes with the effects of certain policy decisions on responsible parenting.
Author | : Natalia Sarkisian |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2012-04-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136497471 |
Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family – with its exclusion of the extended family – is narrow, even deleterious, and misses much of family life. This omission is tied to gender, race, and class. This book is broken down into six chapters. Chapter one discusses how, when promoting "family values" and talking about "family as the basic unit of American society," social commentators, politicians, and social scientists alike typically ignore extended kin ties and focus only on the nuclear family. Chapters two and three show that the focus on marriage and the nuclear family is a narrow view that ignores the familial practices and experiences of many Americans – particularly those of women who do much of the work of maintaining kin ties and racial/ethnic minorities for whom extended kin are centrally important. Chapter four focuses on class and economic inequality and explores how an emphasis on the nuclear family may actually promulgate a vision of family life that dismisses the very social resources and community ties that are critical to the survival strategies of those in need. In chapter five, the authors argue that marriage actually detracts from social integration and ties to broader communities. Finally, in chapter six, the authors suggest that the focus on marriage and the nuclear family and the inattention to the extended family distort and reduce the power of social policy in the United States.
Author | : Man Singh Das |
Publisher | : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9788185880549 |
This is a valuable source book indicating the influence of history, cultural conflict and the dynamics of equal modernization and industrialization on the condition of women in african societies.