Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Demographics: A Portrait of African American Children -- Overview -- Section One: Population Statistics on African American Children -- Section Two: Living Arrangements of African American Children -- Section Three: Economic Conditions of African American Children and Their Families -- Perspectives on Demographics and African American Children -- Additional Readings -- CHAPTER 2 Research Issues With African American Children -- Overview: The Importance of Studying Developmental Research Methods -- Insider's Voice: The Need for More Research on African American Children -- Section One: Problems: Methodological Constraints in Research Designs -- Insider's Voice: Where Have We Gone Wrong? -- Section Two: Conducting Culturally Relevant Research With African American Children -- The Need for Culturally Sensitive Research With African American Children -- Conceptual Frameworks and Interdisciplinarity -- The Role of Context in African American Child Development -- The Relationship to African American Child Development and Central Characteristics in Developmental Psychology -- Ethical Considerations With African American Child Participants -- Section Three: Theories -- Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory -- Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Systems Theory -- Integrative Conceptual Model of Child Development -- Perspectives on Research and Theories -- Chapter Summary -- Additional Readings -- CHAPTER 3 African American Children and Health Issues -- Overview -- Section One: Health Challenges -- Infant Mortality -- Insider's Voice: Infant Mortality -- Maternal Risk Factors -- Initiatives Designed to Reduce African American Infant Mortality Rates -- Physical Challenges Beyond Infancy -- AIDS -- Treatment of AIDS -- Plumbism -- Insider's Voice: Plumbism -- Treatment of Plumbism.

Sickle-Cell Anemia -- Insider's Voice: Sickle-Cell Anemia -- Treatment of Sickle-Cell Anemia -- Asthma -- Treatment of Asthma -- Obesity -- Treatment of Obesity -- Section Two: Access to Health Care -- Perspectives on the Health Status of African American Children -- Chapter Summary -- Additional Readings -- CHAPTER 4 Mental Health Issues and Racial Identity -- Overview -- Section One: Mental Health Issues -- Insider's Voice: African American Children and Mental Health Issues -- Risk Factors -- Assessment and Diagnosis -- Treatment of Mental Health Disorders -- Section Two: Racial Identity -- Perspectives on Mental Health and Racial Identity -- Chapter Summary -- Additional Readings -- CHAPTER 5 Education and African American Children -- Overview -- Section One: School Desegregation and African American Children -- Insider's Voice: Resegregation of America's Public Schools -- Desegregation and African American Children -- Section Two: Schools That Work for African American Children -- Public School Models -- Independent Black Schools (IBS) -- Section Three: African American Children and Early Intervention Programs -- Head Start -- High/Scope Perry Preschool Project -- The Abecedarian Project -- Perspectives on Education and African American Children -- Chapter Summary -- Additional Readings -- CHAPTER 6 Language and Literacy -- Overview -- Section One: The Controversy -- Insider's Voice: The Oakland School Board Ebonics Resolution -- Section Two: Language Learning and African American Children -- Section Three: Language and Literacy Issues -- Section Four: Language and Literacy Intervention Programs for African American Children -- Section Five: Language Assessment and African American Children: Distinguishing Dialect From a Speech Language Disorder -- Perspectives on Language Learning and Literacy and African American Children -- Chapter Summary.

Additional Readings -- CHAPTER 7 Moral Development -- Overview -- Insider's Voice: What if Heinz Were Black? -- The Issues -- Section One: Theories of Moral Development -- Piaget's Theory -- Kohlberg's Theory: The Ethic of Justice -- Criticisms of Piaget's and Kohlberg's Theories -- Gilligan's Theory: The Ethic of Care -- Gibb's Sociomoral Reasoning Model -- Humphries' Culture and Empathy Model -- Turiel's Domain Theory: Moral Rules and Social Conventions -- Section Two: Prosocial Behavior and African American Children -- Possible Factors Influencing Prosocial Behavior in African American Children -- Morality and Racial Identity Development -- Section Three: Moral Development and Community Violence -- Insider's Voice: Dissecting the 'Code of the Street' -- Perspectives on African American Children and Moral Development -- Chapter Summary -- Additional Readings -- CHAPTER 8 Social Contexts in the Lives of African American Children: Family and Peers -- Overview -- Issues -- Insider's Voice: The Negro American Family -- Section One: Models of the African American Family -- Pathological Model -- Cultural Equivalent Model -- Emergent Model -- Ecology Models of the Family -- Guiding Principles of Family Systems Theory -- External Systems Affecting the Family -- Section Two: African American Family Structure and Child Development -- Nuclear Family -- African American Single-Parent Families -- Augmented Families -- Section Three: The Peer Group -- African American Children's Peer Relationships -- African American Children's Friendships -- Perspectives on African American Children and Social Contexts -- Chapter Summary -- Additional Readings -- CHAPTER 9 Epilogue: Where Do We Go From Here? -- Poverty -- Cultural Diversity Within the African American Population -- Family Constellation -- Health Care -- Education -- Violence -- References -- Index -- A -- B.

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