A number of American Negro families managed to escape the more crippling consequences of poverty and racism. What are the sources of their achievement? What are the barriers they still face as they struggle for equality with the white middle class? And what about those families who still languish in the black ghettos of America? How do they break out of the ghetto and into decent housing, jobs, and schools? In Black Families in White America, Andrew Billingsley, Negro social scientist, provides answers to these and other questions. The author presents a bold, reasoned analysis of the history, structure, aspirations, and problems of black families in a white-controlled society. The goal for the Negro family, says Bilingsley, is to break free from white institutions. Blacks first must "manage and control their own institutions" before they can make a "maximum contribution to their own community and the larger community." Refuting the Moynihan report that "concluded, quite incorrectly, that the Negro family in this country is falling apart," Billingsley remarks: "Negro families have shown an amazing ability to survive in the face of impossible conditions. They have also shown remarkable ability to take the barest shreds of opportunity and turn them into the social capital of stability and achievement." -- from book's back cover

BLACK FAMILIES IN WHITE AMERICA

Politics & Social Sciences

Billingsley, Andrew

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

Children of the storm: black children and American child welfare

Politics & Government

Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

Children of the Storm: Black Children and American Child Welfare [Jan 01, 1972] Billingsley, Andrew

Children of the Storm: Black Children and American Child Welfare

Harcourt College Pub.

Throughout the history of the African American people there has been no stronger resource for overcoming adversity than the black church. From its role in leading a group of free Blacks to form a colony in Sierra Leone in the 1790s to helping ex-slaves after the Civil War, and from playing major roles in the Civil Rights Movement to offering community outreach programs in American cities today, black churches have been the focal point of social change in their communities. Based on extensive research over several years, Mighty Like a River is the first comprehensive account of how black churches have helped shape American society. An expert in African American culture, Andrew Billingsley surveys nearly a thousand black churches across the country, including its oldest, the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia. These black churches, whose roots extend back to antebellum times, have periodically confronted social, economic, and political problems facing the African American community. Mighty Like a River addresses such questions as: How widespread and effective is the community activity of black churches? What are the patterns of activities being undertaken today? How do activist churches confront such problems as family instability, youth development, AIDS and other health issues, and care for the elderly? With profiles of the remarkable black heroes and heroines who helped create the activist church, and a compelling agenda for expanding the black church's role in society at large, Mighty Like a River is an inspirational, visionary, and definitive account of the subject.

Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform

History

Americas

Oxford University Press

Throughout the history of the African American people there has been no stronger resource for overcoming adversity than the black church. From its role in leading a group of free Blacks to form a colony in Sierra Leone in the 1790s to helping ex-slaves after the Civil War, and from playing major roles in the Civil Rights Movement to offering community outreach programs in American cities today, black churches have been the focal point of social change in their communities. Based on extensive research over several years, Mighty Like a River is the first comprehensive account of how black churches have helped shape American society. An expert in African American culture, Andrew Billingsley surveys nearly a thousand black churches across the country, including its oldest, the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia. These black churches, whose roots extend back to antebellum times, have periodically confronted social, economic, and political problems facing the African American community. Mighty Like a River addresses such questions as: How widespread and effective is the community activity of black churches? What are the patterns of activities being undertaken today? How do activist churches confront such problems as family instability, youth development, AIDS and other health issues, and care for the elderly? With profiles of the remarkable black heroes and heroines who helped create the activist church, and a compelling agenda for expanding the black church's role in society at large, Mighty Like a River is an inspirational, visionary, and definitive account of the subject.

Black families and the struggle for survival

Friendship Press

A sociological study of the black family as it has been influenced by continual contact and confrontation with the values of white American society

Traces black family history from ancient Africa, through slavery and Reconstruction, to today, examining the effects of technology, war, education, and the economy on black families across five social classes. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African-American Families

Simon&Schuster

Traces the history of the black family from its roots in Africa, through slavery, Reconstruction, the Depression, and the civil rights movement, to the present, arguing that black families cannot be measured against white ""norms."" Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacies of African-American Families

Parenting & Relationships

Touchstone

On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839-1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor and piloted the vessel to cheering seamen of the Union blockade, thus securing his place in the annals of Civil War heroics. Slave, pilot, businessman, statesman, U.S. congressman--Smalls played many roles en route to becoming an American icon, but none of his accomplishments was a solo effort. Sociologist Andrew Billingsley offers the first biography of Smalls to assess the influence of his families--black and white, past and present--on his life and enduring legend. In so doing, Billingsley creates a compelling mosaic of evolving black-white social relations in the American South as exemplified by this famous figure and his descendants.Born a slave in Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was raised with his master's family and grew up amid an odd balance of privilege and bondage which instilled in him an understanding of and desire for freedom, culminating in his daring bid for freedom in 1862. Smalls served with distinction in the Union forces at the helm of the Planter and, after the war, he returned to Beaufort to buy the home of his former masters--a house that remained at the center of the Smalls family for a century. A founder of the South Carolina Republican Party, Smalls was elected to the state house of representatives, the state senate, and five times to the United States Congress. Throughout the trials and triumphs of his military and public service, he was surrounded by growing family of supporters. Billingsley illustrates how this support system, coupled with Smalls's dogged resilience, empowered him for success.Writing of subsequent generations of the Smalls family, Billingsley delineates the evolving patterns of opportunity, challenge, and change that have been the hallmarks of the African American experience thanks to the selfless investments in freedom and family made by Robert Smalls of South Carolina.

Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families

Univ of South Carolina Pr

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BLACK FAMILIES IN WHITE AMERICA

Children of the storm: black children and American child welfare

Children of the Storm: Black Children and American Child Welfare

Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform

Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform

Black families and the struggle for survival

BLACK FAMILIES IN WHITE AMERICA

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African-American Families

Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Enduring Legacies of African-American Families

Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families