Böcker av Shirley A. Hill

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system.

Applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book is suitable for students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work.

A brief, affordable book that provides a contemporary analysis of how economics and social class affects the concept of family today.

This volume is a comprehensive exploration of historical and contemporary patterns of parenting in black families. Based on interviews and survey data, African American Children focuses on black families of various social classes as well as a comparative sample of white families. It covers major areas of child socialization.