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Coping with poverty :

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Coping with poverty :

[Book]

the social contexts of neighborhood, work, and family in the African-American community /

edited by Sheldon Danziger and Ann Chih Lin

xvi, 284 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 [and others] ; 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

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A collection of essays focusing on the survival skills of the poor as well as family and community support, low-income employment, welfare reform, economic conditions of African-Americans, and more

Coping with poverty.

Coping with poverty.

African American families-- Social conditions

African Americans-- Economic conditions

African Americans-- Employment

African Americans-- Social conditions-- 1975-

Inner cities-- United States

Urban policy-- United States

Urban poor-- United States

Danziger, Sheldon

Lin, Ann Chih

20160712064831.0

[Book]

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