Survival of the African American family the institutional impact of U.S. social policy
Title:
Survival of the African American family the institutional impact of U.S. social policy
Author:
Jewell, K. Sue.
ISBN:
9780313056796
9780313390968
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 303 p.)
Contents:
Introduction -- Social policy and African American familey structure -- Informal social-support systems -- Era of liberal social policy -- Impact of social and economic gains on African American families -- Expectations versus realization -- 1980s: a period of social conservation and social reawakening -- Reaffirmation of institutional exclusivity: removing the facade -- 1990s: the decade of demystification -- Turbulent twenty-first century -- Future of social policy and the African American family.
Abstract:
Challenging widely held beliefs, this provocative book offers nothing less than a blueprint for enhancing the social and economic status of African American families. Despite the implementation of liberal social policies in the 1960s and '70s, successive U.S. administrations continue to dash the hopes and expectations of African Americans, who remain subject to racism and discrimination. Arguing that social policies--and their absence--have affected the stability of the African American family, Jewell refutes the myth of significant progress for African American families emanating from the civ.
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