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J. 00.fm.i-xxxii 8/11/04 3:45 PM Page i J. 00.fm.i-xxxii 8/11/04 3:45 PM Page ii J. 00.fm.i-xxxii 8/11/04 3:45 PM Page iii Black Families at the Crossroads J. 00.fm.i-xxxii 8/11/04 3:45 PM Page iv Leanor Boulin Johnson Robert Staples Foreword by Robert B. Hill J. 00.fm.i-xxxii 8/11/04 3:45 PM Page v Black Families at the Crossroads Challenges and Prospects Revised Edition J. 00.fm.i-xxxii 8/11/04 3:45 PM Page vi Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741 www.josseybass.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authoriza- tion through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, phone: 978-750-8400, fax: 978-646-8600, or on the Web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, phone: 201-748-6011, fax: 201-748-6008, e-mail: permcoordinator @wiley.com. Jossey-Bass books and products are available through most bookstores. To contact Jossey- Bass directly, call our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 800-956-7739 or outside the U.S. at 317-572-3986, or fax to 317-572-4002. Jossey-Bass also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Leanor Boulin, date Black families at the crossroads : Challenges and prospects / Leanor Boulin Johnson, Robert Staples.—Rev. ed. p. cm. Rev. ed. of: Black families at the crossroads / Robert Staples, Leanor Boulin Johnson. 1st ed. c1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7879-7222-3 (alk. paper) 1. African American families. I. Staples, Robert. II. Staples, Robert. Black families at the crossroads. III. Title. E185.86.S698 2004 306.85’089’96073—dc22 2004010951 Printed in the United States of America SECONDEDITION PB Printing10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 J. 00.fm.i-xxxii 8/11/04 3:45 PM Page vii Contents Foreword ix Robert B. Hill Preface to the Revised Edition xvii Preface to the First Edition xxi Acknowledgments xxvii 1 History as Fact and Fiction 1 2 Studying Black Families 31 3 Work and Money: The Struggle 59 4 Patterns of Sexual Intimacy 93 5 Singlehood and Partner Selection 125 6 Gender Roles and Male Sexism 155 7 Marital Patterns and Interactions 177 8 The Challenges of Parenting 213 9 Kinship and Community Support 245 10 Social Change, Challenges, and Prospects 277 Selected Readings 311 References 313 About the Authors 357 Name Index 359 Subject Index 369 vii J. 00.fm.i-xxxii 8/11/04 3:45 PM Page viii J. 00.fm.i-xxxii 8/11/04 3:45 PM Page ix Foreword Once again, Leanor Johnson and Robert Staples, who combine more than sixty years of writing and research as family sociologists, have produced a work that greatly enhances the understanding of the complexity and diversity in the functioning of Black families today. This revised edition provides rare insights regarding how the cultural values, attitudes, and aspirations of African American fam- ilies interact with structural conditions and social policies to pro- duce a wide range of positive and negative outcomes. Thus, this work makes many important contributions to our knowledge about external and internal forces that affect African American families. First and foremost, this is a book about the institution of the Black family. There is a widespread tendency to misrepresent many works that concentrate on problems, such as unemployment, pov- erty, and adolescent pregnancy, as studies of Black families when actually the individual or community is the focus of study. It is for this reason that research in which Black families are the primary unit of analysis, as in this book, continues to comprise only a tiny fraction of the studies of African Americans. Second, a historical perspective is incorporated throughout this work. A major deficiency in most other studies of Black families is their ahistorical approach. Over a century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois ar- gued that researchers could not adequately study Black people with- out placing their work within a historical and cultural context. ix
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