From the Publisher:From the author of the critically acclaimed "Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World" comes an anecdotal and visionary look at single motherhood.
This book is for busy Christian mothers to better manage their time and homes. Moms will learn how to manage their papers, clean more efficiently, better manage their time, and organize children.
Shifting the focus from intervention with problem populations, this book targets the everyday socialization of African American children. African American Children is a comprehensive exploration of historical and contemporary patterns of parenting in black families. Historically, it focuses on how slavery, race, the racial caste system, and the African American culture influenced the ways African Americans parented their children. This series of social forces seriously circumscribed the ability of African Americans to conform to the ideologies about the nature of children and the roles of parents that began to evolve in the early 20th century. In the context of growing diversity, Shirley A. Hill examines the work that African American parents do in raising their children and explores general child socialization patterns as well as parenting issues and challenges. Providing an analysis of the views, philosophies, and parenting strategies of parents from a variety of social class backgrounds, African American Children combines qualitative and quantitative data collected to examine a broad overview of current theoretical debates about African
American families as they relate to child socialization. Topics include discipline strategies, sexual socialization, teen sexuality, self-esteem, redefining physical attractiveness, gender roles, and the role of the extended family and community.
This book is an ideal supplemental text for advanced students in child development, family studies, sociology of the family, as well as students in ethnic studies, multicultural counseling, or gender studies.
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In African-American Children at Church Dr. Haight provides a vital description of child rearing in a Black community in the western United States. Based upon an extensive, naturalistic study of adult-child
"A powerful book that recounts the costs of growing up with and without a father?poignant and wrenching."-"Ebony"
"Thoroughly absorbing?a readable, well-balanced, impassioned account that touches not just the black family, but all who care about children."-"Kirkus Reviews"
The fatherless black family is a problem that grows to bigger proportions every year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in their homes. Even the minority of black men who do live with their children often struggle with the role. As this dire pattern grows worse, what can men do who hope to break it, when there are so few models and so little guidance in their own homes and communities? Where can they learn to "become Dad?"
When Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Pitts-who himself grew up with an abusive father whose absences came as a relief-interviewed dozens of men across the country, he found both discouragement and hope, as well as deep insights into his own roles as son and father. An unflinching investigation, both personal and journalistic, of black fatherhood in America, this is the best, most pivotal book on this profoundly important issue.
Leonard Pitts Jr. won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his twice-weekly syndicated column, which appears in more than 200 newspapers, and has won numerous other journalism awards. Born and raised in Southern California, he now lives in suburban Washington DC with his wife and children.
Black Children, Second Edition collects current empirical research unique to the experiences and situations of black children and their parents. As the editor emphasizes, "African American children develop a duality for their existence. To be fully functional, they must develop the skills to do well simultaneously in two different cultures, both black and non-black." This volume explores the meaning of this duality in four distinct environments: socioeconomic, parental, internal, and educational. The complex picture that emerges discredits many of the myths that surround black childhood development and initiates in-depth exploration into the diversities of the African American experience.
Taken together, the entries in this volume provide a valuable collection (suitable as both a core or supplemental textbook) for scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals in the fields of education, counseling and clinical psychology, social work, family services, and related social services who are concerned about the optimal growth and development of black children.
A heartwarming collection of true stories that weave a rich tapestry of the adoption experience from many different perspectives: birthmothers, adoptive parents and grandparents, and adopted children and adults. These inspiring stories reveal the challenges and joys of the lifelong adoption journey including: the pain of letting go of a child; the wonderment of meeting "your" perfect child halfway around the world; the challenges of adopting an older child already set in his ways; watching a child's potential flourish in a loving environment; sibling rivalry and eventual bonding; integrating a child's culture into a new multiracial family; finding peace in the search for identity, roots and unanswered questions; and feeling the happiness and love that comes from forming a family.
While each story is unique, the emotions conveyed are universal: love, loss, hope and joy.
The collection will appeal to everyone affected by adoption, regardless of their phase in the journey.
View the Table of Contents . Read Chapter 1 . ocirc; In her book, Cheney tries to dispel the notion that all rap music is about sex, violence and bling. . . . The book is insightfulugrave; particularly to white Americans who don't get the appeal of Louis Farrakhan or to older African-Americans whose knowledge of black music stops at Smokey Robinson. After reading this book, both groups might at least be tempted to sample some Public Enemy music.ouml; — The San Luis Obispo Tribune ocirc; A lively, unique, and often revisionist perspective on the sexual politics of hip-hop culture.ouml; — William L. Van Deburg, author ofNew Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965ucirc; 1975 "A study of rap singers of the 1980s and 90s that sets their political expression in the context of the racial and sexual politics of black nationalism since the early 19th century." — The Chronicle ocirc; ?A¿ must read for anyone interested in the problems of gender and politics in rap music. Charise Cheney combines an historian's insight with an expansive knowledge of hip-hop culture to produce this remarkable study of the rise of artists influenced by black nationalismugrave; the self-proclaimed ocirc; raptivists.ouml; Cheney dives head-on into the contentious debates regarding the articulations of masculinity and black nationalism in rap, and how these reflect black Americans' age-old desire for power and authority. A vital contribution." — Jane Rhodes, author ofFraming the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon Brothers Gonna Work It Outconsiders the political expression of rap artists within the historical tradition of black nationalism. Interweaving songsand personal interviews with hip-hop artists and activists including Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Rosa Clemente, manager of dead prez, and Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers, Cheney links late twentieth-century hip-hop nationalists with their nineteenth-century spiritual forebears. Cheney examines Black nationalism as an ideology historically inspired by a crisis of masculinity. Challenging simplistic notions of hip-hop culture as simply sexist or misogynistic, she pays particular attention to Black nationalists' historicizing of slavery and their visualization of male empowerment through violent resistance. She charts the recent rejection of Christianity in the lyrics of rap nationalist music due to the perception that it is too conciliatory, and the increasing popularity of Black Muslim rap artists. Cheney situates rap nationalism in the 1980s and 90s within a long tradition of Black nationalist political thought which extends beyond its more obvious influences in the mid-to-late twentieth century like the Nation of Islam or the Black Power Movement, and demonstrates its power as a voice for disenfranchised and disillusioned youth all over the world.
This book endeavors to help families acquire special skills in rearing healthy children in a world where racism, poverty and the legacy of slavery are still very much alive and thriving in spite of many socio-economic gains made by blacks. The bible states that Cain inherited a life of unproductivity because of past sins and therefore black families and their children have inherited societal ills like racism for nothing other than the color of their skin. The failure to move forward can only create a vicious cycle of predetermined self-fulfilling prophecy. WE SHALL OVERCOME!
More than 50 percent of black children are being raised by single mothers. This book examines the future of black boys in the hands of African American mothers, showing 27 mothers who are raising their male children successfully. Some of the issues addressed are manhood, masculinity, media, music, peer pressure, academic achievement, the lack of fathers, and goal setting. This book will change the way society views, engages, and treats single-mother families and will be a reference for mothers looking for help in raising sons.
The father is often perceived as someone absent from the African American family, though the reasons for this perception vary. This book shows another side to that image, a positive one depicting black men who are supportive and nurturing parents. To reveal and celebrate this less often recognized parent, Carole Patterson has spent several years crossing the continent to interview and photograph responsible black fathers. Photographer Anthony Barboza has also contributed imagery. These portraits - young fathers, older fathers, a great-grandfather, fathers on different levels of the economic ladder - provide valuable insight into American culture. And because of their humanitarian scope, they deliver an important message to everyone, especially young people, about parenthood and the obligations and responsibilities attached to it. In his introduction, Arvarh E. Strickland surveys the history of the African American family, beginning with the separation inherent in slavery. Then, Minion KC Morrison offers a more personal view of image making and the creation of identity.
Contributor(s): Foreman, George (Author), Davis, Max (With)
This father of ten children delivers knockout advice on the art of being a dad. Through his own experiences, Foreman knows what works and what doesn't--all with a dose of humor and humility.
An anthology of childhood experiences by leading African American writers, such as Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Ralph Abernathy, Maya Angelou, John Edgar Wideman and many more.
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