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

Publication Info.	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000]
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Description	xvi, 284 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Pt. 1. Neighborhood: family and community as supports. Between a rock and a hard place: the labyrinth of working and parenting in a poor community / Sharon Hicks-Bartlett ; Communal isolation: narrowing the pathways to goal attainment and work / Gina Barclay-McLaughlin ; Negotiating adolescence in a Black middle-class neighborhood / Mary Pattillo-McCoy -- Pt. 2. Employment: from removing barriers to coping with obstacles. Dreamkeeping in the inner city: diminishing the divide between aspirations and expectations / Carla O'Connor ; On the outside looking in: low-income Black men's conceptions of work opportunity and the good job / Alford A. Young, Jr. ; Black male employment and self-sufficiency / Andrew L. Reaves -- Pt. 3. Parenting: from enforcing responsibility to enabling care. Mother, worker, welfare recipient: welfare reform and the multiple roles of low-income women / Ariel Kalil ... [et al.] ; Work preparation and labor market experiences among the urban, poor, nonresident fathers / Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. -- Conclusion. Social contexts in the making of public policy / Ann Chih Lin.
Subject	African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
	African Americans -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term	1975-
Subject	Urban poor -- United States.
	Urban poor.
	United States.
	African Americans -- Economic conditions.
	African Americans -- Economic conditions.
	African Americans -- Employment.
	African Americans -- Employment.
	Urban policy -- United States.
	Urban policy.
	African American families -- Social conditions.
	African American families -- Social conditions.
	African American families.
	Inner cities -- United States.
	Inner cities.
Added Author	Danziger, Sheldon.
	Lin, Ann Chih.
ISBN	9780472086979 paperback acid-free paper
	0472111450 acid-free paper
	9780472111459 acid-free paper
	0472086979 paperback acid-free paper

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