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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816175303321

Titolo

Coping with poverty : the social contexts of neighborhood, work, and family in the African-American community / / edited by Sheldon Danziger and Ann Chih Lin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2000

ISBN

9786613769503

9781280997891

1280997893

9780472023585

0472023586

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DanzigerSheldon

LinAnn Chih

Disciplina

305.896073

Soggetti

African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-

Urban poor - United States

African Americans - Economic conditions

African Americans - Employment

Urban policy - United States

African American families - Social conditions

Inner cities - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Qualitative research seeks to place poverty among African-Americans into the context of family, work, and community.