The Black Family--Perpetuating the Myths: An Analysis of Family Sociology Textbook Treatment of Black Families

1974 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Ferguson Peters
Keyword(s):  
Black Family ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Family Sociology ◽  
Sociology Textbook

Families, Fathers, and the Black Community, 1950–2010

2019 ◽  
pp. 200-223
Author(s):  
Jürgen Martschukat
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Black Families ◽  
American Family ◽  
Johnson Administration ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The 1960S

Chapter 11 looks at an African American family in 1970s Watts after the civil rights movement and the Watts riots. Its main character is the slaughterhouse worker Stan from Charles Burnett’s independent film Killer of Sheep (1977). In this film, Burnett makes a powerful counterargument in the debate on the “dysfunctional black family,” which a decade earlier was described by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Johnson administration as being mired in a “tangle of pathology.” Stan is neither shiftless nor lazy but tries to get ahead and secure a decent living for his family. He endlessly struggles for the survival of his nuclear family but is constrained in his efforts and their success by the racist conditions of his life in 1970s America. The chapter approaches the massive debate on the black family and fatherhood in contemporary America through the film and its public reception, both in the 1970s and 1980s and after its re-release in 2007. Thus, the author uses the film to explore this discourse from the 1960s to today, from Patrick Moynihan to Barack Obama, and analyzes their comments on black families and fatherhood as well as those by their critics.

scholarly journals The reproduction of anti-black racism within child welfare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Ewa-Elechi
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Research Study ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Primary Root ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Discrimination And Oppression ◽  
Children In Care

This research study explores the reproduction of anti-black racism within child welfare. The study draws on literature that discuss the experiences of black families within care and the ways in which anti-black racism is perpetuated by child protection services. The literature also discusses the over representation of black children in care by drawing on the past and present discrimination and oppression of black folks as a primary root of such disparity within the system. This research study then moves on to introduce anti-black racism theory and critical race theory as lenses that will frame and guide the discussions on the experiences of black families within child welfare. The study includes an in-depth interview with an East African Canadian child welfare survivor whose narrative provides insight into how black folks are engaged by the system. The study found that this black family continues to face many barriers within child welfare as a result of not only anti-black racism but also the perpetuation of whiteness and white supremacy that continues to guide child welfare practice.

Black Family Resilience: An Introduction to Enriched Structural Family Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
W. Henry Gregory ◽  
Jannette Meriweather Gregory ◽  
Gillian Gregory ◽  
Maisha Davis ◽  
Jerrod Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Adaptive Functioning ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Structural Family Therapy ◽  
Structural Family ◽  
Overall Functioning ◽  
Viable Model

Culture and racial or ethnic background are important variables to consider when conceptualizing families and resilience. Working effectively with Black families requires culturally competent interventions that honor and build upon their strengths and give attention to the intricate dynamics of relationships. This paper offers an examination of the unique stressors and adversity experienced by Black families as well as factors influencing their adaptive functioning. Enriched structural family therapy (ESFT), a versatile, skill-based, systems approach, is introduced as a viable model to promote resilience in Black families. Through ESFT interventions, Black families are able to successfully manage and cope with stressors while improving overall functioning.

All in the Family

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nichole Guillory ◽  
Seneca Vaught
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
American Family ◽  
Black Fathers ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Historical Discourses

Constructions of black mothers and fathers are often complicated intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, and place. This chapter seeks to examine the contested representations of black mothers, black fathers, and the black family in hip hop discourses and offers a typology of hip hop families. Specifically, the chapter focuses on the ways in which hip hop texts are in conversation with historical discourses on the black family and the ways in which hip hop has challenged traditional notions of family, kinship, and familial love. The chapter examines representations of hip hop fathers and hip hop mothers, complicates notions of the “modern” American family, and frames new trajectories for how black families are imagined in hip hop discourses.

scholarly journals The reproduction of anti-black racism within child welfare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Ewa-Elechi
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Research Study ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Primary Root ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Discrimination And Oppression ◽  
Children In Care

This research study explores the reproduction of anti-black racism within child welfare. The study draws on literature that discuss the experiences of black families within care and the ways in which anti-black racism is perpetuated by child protection services. The literature also discusses the over representation of black children in care by drawing on the past and present discrimination and oppression of black folks as a primary root of such disparity within the system. This research study then moves on to introduce anti-black racism theory and critical race theory as lenses that will frame and guide the discussions on the experiences of black families within child welfare. The study includes an in-depth interview with an East African Canadian child welfare survivor whose narrative provides insight into how black folks are engaged by the system. The study found that this black family continues to face many barriers within child welfare as a result of not only anti-black racism but also the perpetuation of whiteness and white supremacy that continues to guide child welfare practice.

Economic Forces, Structural Discrimination and Black Family Instability

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Plant Closings ◽  
Institutionalized Racism ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
The 1960S

The social and economic gains achieved by black families during the 1960s were severely eroded during the seventies and eighties. Unemployment, poverty, single-parent families, out-of-wedlock births, and adolescent pregnancies soared to alarming levels. According to the thesis of the declining significance of race, this crisis is mainly concentrated among the black “underclass” and it is broad societal trends, not racism, that is mainly responsible for their increased deprivation. We contend that this thesis fails to assess the role of institutionalized racism as it is manifested in “unintended” or “structural” discrimination, i.e., the disproportionate adverse effects of economic trends and policies on the functioning of low-income and middle-income black families. Moreover, we argue that social forces or policies that have racially disparate adverse effects are “discriminatory” by result, whether intended or not. The major economic trends that affected black families adversely during the seventies and eighties were: back-to-back recessions, double-digit inflation, and industrial and population shifts. The key economic policies that undermined black family stability have been: anti-inflation fiscal and monetary policies, trade policies, plant closings, social welfare, block grants, and federal per capita formulas for allocating funds to states and local areas that have not been corrected for the census undercount.

"Hang Them if They Have to be Hung": Mitigation Discourse, Black Families, and Racial Stereotypes

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alycee Lane
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Dysfunctional Family ◽  
The Public ◽  
Capital Jury ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Black Defendant ◽  
Welfare Queen

This article examines how mitigation discourse fails to address the racial implications of presenting to white jurors a narrative of a black capital defendant's dysfunctional family life. Given the plethora of racist configurations in the public sphere of "the black family"——signified most perniciously through the figure of the "welfare queen"——the telling of a black defendant's dysfunctional family life may in fact reinforce what white jurors "already know" about black families. Indeed, since "the black family" figures not as an object of sympathy but of contempt, presenting uncritically mitigating evidence of a black capital defendant's family story may, in the end, provide to a white-dominated capital jury an opportunity to punish not only the black defendant but also "the black family" writ large.

Empowering Treatment Skills for Helping Black Families

1982 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna R. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Family System ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Effective Intervention ◽  
The Social

Effective intervention in a black family system requires that the social worker consider the need for empowerment and the uniqueness of the black culture as important elements for family therapy. Several treatment skills and techniques are suggested as a means to enhance service delivery to black families.

Moving Toward an Understanding of Black Family Violence

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 564-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Black Family
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