African American family life : ecological and cultural diversity
African American family life : ecological and cultural diversity
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非裔美国人的家庭生活：生态和文化多样性
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2005
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K. Dodge
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V. McLoyd;Nancy E. Hill;K. Dodge
放大图片创作者：John C. Hill，and Kenneth A. Dodge（Eds.）非洲裔美国人的家庭生活：生态和文化多样性。纽约：吉尔福德出版社，2005年。非裔美国人的家庭生活：生态和文化多样性是由15篇文章，涵盖了几乎每一个方面的黑人家庭生活-例如，婚姻、宗教、种族歧视、教育、社会化、婚姻、健康、住房和经济地位。编辑们将这本书描述为跨学科的观点，旨在建立在杜波依斯，弗雷泽和比林斯利等学者的工作基础上，并推进对黑人家庭的理论和研究。他们的介绍性文章描绘了当今非洲裔美国人的生活，讨论了非洲裔美国人家庭的独特特征，并解释了在文化和生态背景下研究非洲裔美国人的意义。本书第一部分的其他四篇文章进一步探讨了文化的概念，他们还讨论了后现代非洲裔美国人家庭，过去几十年来儿童福利的变化以及种族财富差距。我发现希尔、默里和安德森的文章在这一部分特别有见地：它权衡了理解非裔美国人家庭的文化方法通常所带来的优点和问题，比如确定特定的行为和生活方式是文化传统的结果还是共同的社会劣势。他们把文化描述为一个“移动的目标”，或者说是不断发展的，而不是静止的。这一主题与塔克和詹姆斯对后现代非裔美国人家庭的描述相呼应：“不那么以血缘为基础，不那么具体地抚养孩子，不那么持久，更具渗透性，更灵活”（第89页）。本书的第二部分在更广泛的背景下审视非裔美国人家庭，包括关于工作与家庭、婚姻关系、照顾老人、住房和宗教的交叉点的文章。本节中的文章对黑人家庭的文学做出了杰出的贡献，解决了很少受到关注的问题。例如，Bryant和Wickrama探讨了黑人夫妇的婚姻满意度，并展示了它是如何受到社会环境的影响的。有一篇文章探讨了工作的质量和环境如何影响家庭生活，而不仅仅是没有就业。伯顿和克拉克在另一篇文章中，通过分析拥有“家园”的意义，超越了统计数据显示黑人比白人更不可能成为房主的事实。…
McLoyd, Vonnie C, Nancy E. Hill, and Kenneth A. Dodge (Eds.). AFRICANAMERICAN FAMILYLIFE: ECOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY. New York: Guilford Press, 2005.African American Family Life: Ecological and Cultural Diversity is composed of 15 articles that cover nearly every aspect of Black family life -e.g., marriage, religion, racial discrimination, education, socialization, caregiving, health, housing and economic status. The editors describe the book as interdisciplinary in perspective and designed to build on the work of scholars like DuBois, Frazier, and Billingsley and advance theory and research on Black families. Their introductory article provides a portrait of today's African American population, discusses the unique features of its families, and explains what it means to study them in cultural and ecological context.The other four articles in Part I of the book further examine the concept of culture, and they also discuss postmodern African American families, changes in child welfare in the past few decades, and the racial gap in wealth. I found the article by Hill, Murray, and Anderson in this section especially insightful: It weighs the merits and problems that are often associated with the cultural approach to understanding African American families, such as the determining whether specific behaviors and lifestyles are the result of cultural traditions or shared social disadvantage. They describe culture as a 'moving target,' or as evolving rather than static. This theme resonates with Tucker and James's description of postmodern African American families as "less kin-based, less specific to childrearing, less permanent, more permeable, and more flexible" (p. 89).Part II of the book looks at African American families in the broader context, and includes articles on the intersection of work and family, marital relationships, elder care, housing, and religion. The articles in this section make an excellent contribution to the literature on Black families, addressing issues that seldom get much attention. Bryant and Wickrama, for example, explore marital satisfaction among Black couples and show how it is influenced by social context. One article looks at how the quality and circumstances of work affect family life, as opposed to the mere absence of employment. Burton and Clark, in another article, look beyond statistics showing that Blacks are less likely than Whites to be homeowners by analyzing the meaning of having a 'homeplace. …