Ensuring Inequality

副标题: The Structural Transformation of the African American Family

ISBN: 9780195100785

出版社: Oxford University Press, USA

出版年: 1997-09-11

页数: 280

定价: USD 55.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

This text analyzes the evolution of the contemporary African-American family from historical, cultural and social policy perspectives in an effort to understand why marital ties have weakened among poor African-Americans and why mother-only families have increasingly become a normal feature of ghetto poverty. It argues that the cumulative effects of slavery, sharecropping and urbanization significantly weakened African-American family ties and that mother-only families emerged in the early 20th century as a response to the instability of wage labour for African-Americans.