Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 302
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7425-7006-1 • Hardback • February 2010 • $131.00 • (£101.00)
978-0-7425-7007-8 • Paperback • February 2010 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
978-0-7425-7008-5 • eBook • February 2010 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Charles V. Willie, Ph.D., is the Charles W. Eliot Professor of Education emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Richard J. Reddick, Ed.D., is assistant professor of educational administration at The University of Texas at Austin.
Part 1 Conceptual Approach to the Study of Black Families
Chapter 2 1. Introduction
Chapter 3 2. Family Life and Social Stratification
Part 4 Analyses of Black Families by Social Class
Chapter 5 3. Middle-Class Black Families
Chapter 6 4. Working-Class Black Families
Chapter 7 5. Low-Income Black Families
Chapter 8 6. Social Classes and Family Adaptation: A Comparative Analysis
Part 9 Cases Against and For Black Men and Black Women
Chapter 10 7. The Case For and Against Black Males
Chapter 11 8. The Myth of the Black Matriarchy
Part 12 Alternative Pathways to Success
Chapter 13 9. Maternal Mentoring Models
Chapter 14 10. Paternal Mentoring Models
Chapter 15 11. Family Goals and Practices Among Same-Gender Parents
Chapter 16 12. The Egalitarian Family
Part 17 Black Families and the Social System
Chapter 18 13. Social and Economic Supports for Black Family Life
Chapter 19 14. The Complex and Interesting Family Life of Barack Obama: The First Black President of the United States
Part 20 Summary, Conclusions and References
Chapter 21 15. Summary and Conclusions
With a sensitive eye to the diversity of experiences that characterize African Americans, Willie and Reddick put to rest the stubbornly persistent notion of a single “black experience.” A book that does not shy away from either scholarly or policy controversies, A New Look at Black Families makes a valuable contribution to the national conversation on race.
— Mario Luis Small, University of Chicago
An outstanding, thoughtful, rigorous and revealing study of how race, class and family matter in 21st century America. These complex intersections are revealed in the voices, case studies and personal histories of Black women and men of achievement who share intimate portraits of Black family life in low-income, working-class and affluent circumstances. This book offers substantial theoretical, research, and policy lessons for readers interested in understanding the paradox of persistent inequality alongside improved life opportunities for some Blacks in our society...
— Walter R. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education
An outstanding, thoughtful, rigorous and revealing study of how race, class and family matter in 21st century America. These complex intersections are revealed in the voices, case studies and personal histories of Black women and men of achievement who share intimate portraits of Black family life in low-income, working-class and affluent circumstances. This book offers substantial theoretical, research, and policy lessons for readers interested in understanding the paradox of persistent inequality alongside improved life opportunities for some Blacks in our society.
— Walter R. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education
A New Look at Black Familiesprovides a provocative and precocious analysis of the diversity of the black family experience in which black families of all socioeconomic classes are regarded as contributing to the greater social fabric of American life.
— Journal Of African American Studies