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583630
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GBA222781b412849
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Coping with poverty : : the social contexts of neighborhood, work, and family in the African-American community /\ edited by Sheldon Danziger and Ann Chih Lin
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xvi, 284 pages ;; 24 cm
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0472111450
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: 9780472111459
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: 0472086979
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: 9780472086979
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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African Americans-- Social conditions-- 1975-
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Urban poor-- United States
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African Americans-- Economic conditions
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African Americans-- Employment
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Urban policy-- United States
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African American families-- Social conditions
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Inner cities-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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305.896073
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E185.86.C58826 2000
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Danziger, Sheldon
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Lin, Ann Chih
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