Black Families in White America, Volume 10A social systems approach to the sutdy of Negro family life -- Historical backgrounds of the Negro family -- Shadows of the plantation: contemporary social forrces affecting Negro family life -- Screens of opportunity: sources of achievement in Negro families -- Social status in the Black community -- The agony and the promise of social change -- Strategies of social reform. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown achievement American Andrew Brimmer areas Ashanti Augmented Family behavior bride price brother cent of Negro class families class Negro families cultural earning economic ethnic group ethnic subsociety extended family factors fami families headed family structure father functions ghetto high school highly household husband Ibid income Negro families John Hope Franklin kinship Langston Hughes levels live low income Negro marriage married matriarchy Meyer Fortes middle class Negro Milton Gordon Moynihan report needs Negro college Negro community Negro experience Negro population Negroes and whites neighborhood nomic North nuclear family number of Negro occupational parents patrilineal pattern political poverty problems programs racism relationship relatives responsibilities role rural South scholars slave slavery social class status strategy studies of Negro subsystems types of family unilocal United upper class urban viability West Africa white families wider society wife women workers