Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African American Family

by Donna L. Franklin

Book Overview

There is a crisis today in the American family, and this crisis has been particularly severe in the African American community. Black women are more likely than ever to bear children as teenagers, to remain single, and to raise their children in poverty. As a result, a staggering number of African-American children are growing up without fathers and living in destitution. In this insightful new book, Donna L. Franklin offers an in depth account of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195100786
• ISBN13: 9780195100785
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Finally!

A well documented history of today's Black family. Read this book to understand how our family structure has manage to weaken over the last 150 years. This book left me with the understanding that our individaul accomplishments consisting of corporate promotions, new home purchases, and higher incomes don't mean much when our family structure continues to weaken our community towards non-existence.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful book!

I don't know Donna Franklin and don't have anything to gain through my comments. This book is one of the best I've read in a LONG time in analyzing the reasons for some of the changes in the black family and suggesting a number of very lucid, rational, and intelligent recommendations. Absolutely terrific, terrific book! Very scholarly, well-researched, and thoughtful but written in non-jargon and extremely accessible to the average reader. Should be required reading in most college courses as well as for our politicians.