Ensuring Inequality

The Structural Transformation of the African-American Family

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

Av Donna L. Franklin, University of Southern California) Franklin, Donna L. (John Milner Child Welfare Professor, John Milner Child Welfare Professor

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This book analyses the evolution of the contemporary African American family from historical cultural and social policy perspectives in an effort to understand why marital ties have weakened among poor African Americans and why mother-only families have increasingly become a normal feature of ghetto poverty. Franklin argues that the cumulative effects of slavery, sharecropping, and urbanization significantly weakened African American family ties and that mother-only families emerged in the early 20th century as a response to the instability of wage labour for African Americans.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-06-26
Mått163 x 242 x 26 mm
Vikt549 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagOUP USA
MedarbetareWilson,WilliamJulius
ISBN9780195100785
UtmärkelserNamed as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by CHOICE

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Donna Franklin's book is an excellent illustration of the importance of history to the understanding of current problems. She provides the reader with a very important lesson in how to understand current stresses in family life by studying the ways in which early experiences and circumstances led logically and inevitably to the present depressing, even alarming, state of family life at the end of the twentieth century. This is an important work.