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

• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896073
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: DanzigerSheldon LinAnn Chih
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Coping with poverty
• ISBN: 9786613769503; 9781280997891; 1280997893; 9780472023585; 0472023586
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816175303321
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