African-American Children at Church: A Sociocultural Perspective

by Wendy Haight and Wendy L. Haight

Book Overview

African-American Children at Church explores African-American socialization beliefs and practices, based on findings of a unique, four-year long study in a Baptist church in Salt Lake City, Utah. By combining the ethnographic approaches of anthropology with the detailed naturalistic observations of developmental psychology, Dr Haight provides a rich description of actual socialization practices along with an interpretation of what those patterns mean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521003458
• ISBN13: 9780521003452
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"