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Our Last Hope: Black Male-Female Relationships in Change is designed to provide information that has been carefully researched and written about a critical topic for those who would seek to understand the future of Black families-- the foundation of the Black community. While the book sets forth a theoretical model -Lens Model-for examining interpersonal and institutional factors shaping these relationships which ultimately determine the existence of Black families, it illuminates important topical areas. Among the topics included are: demographic issues, sex and gender issues, marital relations, economic issues, religious issues, psycho-social issues, Afrocentric cultural issues, and sexuality and the Hip Hop generation. Our Last Hope: Black Male-Female Relationships in Change concludes with recommendations for building and sustaining healthy relationships and questions for reflection.
About the author
Dr. Delores P. Aldridge is the Grace Towns Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Emory University where she was the founding director of the first degree granting Black Studies Program at a major university in the South. Recipient of more than 100 awards and prizes, the international social scientist, pioneering black female sociologist and pioneer in the modern black studies movement is renowned for two groundbreaking books on black male-female relationships: Black Male-Female Relationship: A Resource Book of Selected Materials (Kendall Hunt) and Focusing: Black Male-Female Relationships (Third World Press). She is also the co-editor of two other definitive volumes: Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies (Lexington Books) and Africana Theoretical and Philosophical Paradigms (Washington State University Press).
