Survival of the African American Family The Institutional Impact of U.S. Social Policy

Subjects:

• Sociology » Race Relations
• Multicultural Studies » Black Studies

Reviews:

• Jewell poignantly shows that with integration, many African-American families were duped into believing they were making extensive progress when, in fact, there was no economic equity but a type of fantasy or counterfeit progress. Her criticism and examination conclude that institutional racism is still alive and well today, and she concurs that macro systems must be involved with the empowerment of African-American families. Survival of the African American Family can serve as an excellent supplementary text for social work students enrolled in social policy courses.
  —Multicultural Review Fall 2004

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Social Policy and African American Family Structure
• Informal Social-Support Systems
• The Era of Liberal Social Policy
• The Impact of Social and Economic Gains on African American Families
• Expectations versus Realization
• The 1980s: A Period of Social Conservatism and Social Reawakening
• A Reaffirmation of Institutional Exclusivity: Removing the Façade
• The 1990s: The Decade of Demystification
• The Turbulent Twenty-First Century
• The Future of Social Policy and the African American Family
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index