This volume focuses on the black family in the United States and the social forces and issues that affect it, including education, healthcare, racism, poverty,

This book describes and documents the existence of the black helping tradition, and offers a theory regarding its origin, development, and decline. The book is

This volume focuses on the black family in the United States and the social forces and issues that affect it, including education, healthcare, racism, poverty,

Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in his

Many of the articles in this edition are new, delving into such areas as welfare reform, stress and male-female relationships, the movement to redefine the raci