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Coping with poverty : the social contexts of neighborhood, work, and family in the African-American community / edited by Sheldon Danziger and Ann Chih Lin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.
- African Americans.
- Urban poor--United States.
- Urban poor.
- African Americans--Economic conditions.
- African Americans--Employment.
- Urban policy--United States.
- Urban policy.
- African American families--Social conditions.
- African American families.
- Inner cities--United States.
- Inner cities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Qualitative research seeks to place poverty among African-Americans into the context of family, work, and community.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Interpretive Research for Public Policy; Part 1 Neighborhood: Family and Community as Supports; 2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community; 3. Communal Isolation: Narrowing the Pathways to Goal Attainment and Work; 4. Negotiating Adolescence in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood; Part 2 Employment: From Removing Barriers to Coping with Obstacles; 5. Dreamkeeping in the Inner City: Diminishing the Divide Between Aspirations and Expectations
- 6. On the Outside Looking In: Low-Income Black Men's Conceptions of Work Opportunity and the Good Job7. Black Male Employment and Self-Su.ciency; Part 3 Parenting: From Enforcing Responsibility to Enabling Care; 8. Mother, Worker, Welfare Recipient: Welfare Reform and the Multiple Roles of Low-Income Women; 9. Work Preparation and Labor Market Experiences Among Urban, Poor, Nonresident Fathers; Conclusion; 10. Social Contexts in the Making of Public Policy; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786613769503
- 9781280997891
- 1280997893
- 9780472023585
- 0472023586
- OCLC:
- 806957358
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