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African American Children: Socialization and Development in Families

African American Children: Socialization and Development in Families

Hill, Shirley A.

Paperback

Series: Understanding Families, Book 14

Medical ReferenceBlack American StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0761904344
ISBN13: 9780761904342
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: Jun 10 1999
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.01
Language: English

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

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