AltaMira Press
Pages: 256
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7591-0152-4 • Paperback • December 2004 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
978-0-7591-1505-7 • eBook • December 2004 • $46.50 • (£36.00)
Shirley A. Hill is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas whose work focuses on social inequality, families, and health care issues. She is the author of Managing Sickle Cell Disease in Low-Income Families (Temple, 1994) and African American Children: Socialization and Development in Families (Sage, 1999).
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Theorizing Race: The Challenge of Black Progress, Diversity, and Decline
Chapter 3 Perspectives on Black Families: From Pathology to Postmodernism
Chapter 4 Love, Marriage, and Beyond: The Pursuit of Intimacy
Chapter 5 In Search of the Village: Black Motherhood in Transition
Chapter 6 Socializing Black Children: The Impact of Social Class
Chapter 7 Gendered Violence: Racial Oppression and the Assault on Black Women
Chapter 8 Resolutions
In Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families ans Relationships, Hill challenges long-standing models, research, and assumptions about dimensions of Black sexuality....It provides insightful linkages between historic systemic and individual-level choices among Black women and men (and the larger society) that have resulted in contemporary challenges....Hill's attempt is commendable and several chapters...are particularly robust in the use of postmodern thought to render new ideas....Scholars, advanced undergraduate, and graduate students in gender studies as well as persons who study race, inequality, social stratification, and social problems could benefit from this book....The book succeeds in showing the benefits of expanding current theories used to study race, class, and gender issues and the Black experience..
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Recommended. All levels/libraries.....
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