A New Look at Black Families

by Charles Vert Willie; Richard J. Reddick

• ISBN13: 9780930390112
• ISBN10: 0930390113
• Format: Bound Book
• Copyright: 2010-02-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

Summary

The miracle of the black family is that it has survived and grown stronger over the years. Eighteen case studies provide a window through which we see patterns of variation in the life-styles of affluent, middle-class, working-class, and poor black families. A new feature of this edition is the overview that compares the way of life of blacks in the three social classes. A comparative analysis of black and of white families is introduced.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Concepts, Data, and Methods
Introduction: Concepts and Analytical Perspectives	p. 5
Data, Hypotheses, and Theories of Adaptation	p. 19
The Continuing Significance of Race	p. 34
Case Studies of Black Families: Affluent, Working-Class, and Poor
Affluent, Working-Class, and Poor Black Families: An Overview	p. 48
Affluent Conformists	p. 59
Healthy and Wealthy but Not Happy	p. 60
Graceful Living in Green Acres	p. 65
The Lonely Integrators	p. 70
The Postman and the Public School Teacher	p. 75
The School Marm and the Postal Worker	p. 83
Doing What Comes Naturally	p. 90
Working-Class Innovators	p. 96
Pooling Earnings for Family Survival	p. 98
Perseverance and Self-Help	p. 104
One For All and All For One	p. 110
In Sickness and in Health	p. 115
Seven Children Strong	p. 122
Blest Be the Child that Binds	p. 127
Poor Rebels	p. 132
Down But Not Out	p. 134
Hard Times and Hope	p. 147
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow	p. 149
Faith and Endurance	p. 157
Like Mother, Like Daughter	p. 164
Young Lovers and Storm Warnings	p. 168
Black Families And The Social System
Gifts to America from the Black Experience: The Equalitarian Family and Other Social Customs	p. 175
Intergenerational Cooperation and Conflict	p. 187
The Case for the Black Male: A Rebuttal to the Case against the Black Male	p. 191
The Role of Mothers in the Lives of Outstanding Scholars	p. 202
Conclusion
A Theoretical Explanation of Family Adaptation by Race and by Social Class	p. 221
Racism in the Twenty-first Century	p. 235
Appendix	p. 243
Index	p. 266
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