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Informationen zum Autor Shirley A. Hill is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas whose work focuses on social inequality, families, and health care issues. She is the author of Managing Sickle Cell Disease in Low-Income Families (Temple, 1994) and African American Children: Socialization and Development in Families (Sage, 1999). Klappentext In Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships, Shirley A. Hill applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book will be useful to students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work. Zusammenfassung Applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book is suitable for students and instructors of African American Studies! Gender Studies! Sociology! Anthropology! Marriage and Family! and Social Work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Theorizing Race: The Challenge of Black Progress, Diversity, and Decline Chapter 3 Perspectives on Black Families: From Pathology to Postmodernism Chapter 4 Love, Marriage, and Beyond: The Pursuit of Intimacy Chapter 5 In Search of the Village: Black Motherhood in Transition Chapter 6 Socializing Black Children: The Impact of Social Class Chapter 7 Gendered Violence: Racial Oppression and the Assault on Black Women Chapter 8 Resolutions
