Family Life in Black America by Robert Joseph Taylor (Paperback -...
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- Over the past 20 years, African American families have undergone tremendous changes, both demographically and socially. Duri... read more
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Pages: 392, Paperback, Sage Publications, Inc
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Paperback Most studies of Black families have had a problem focus', offering a narrow view of import...
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Over the past 20 years, African American families have undergone tremendous changes, both demographically and socially. During this time, most of the studies of black families have focused on problems, such as out-of-wedlock births, single-parent families, and childhood poverty. While an accurate appreciation of the challenges confronting black families is important and needed, a "problem focus" tends to offer a narrow, negative view and restricts the consideration of other important issues affecting families. Family Life in Black America moves away from this deficit perspective and the result is enlig...