scholarly journals Who Can I Turn To? Emotional Support Availability in African American Social Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sula Hood ◽  
Elizabeth Golembiewski ◽  
Kyle Benbow ◽  
Hadyatoullaye Sow ◽  
Vetta Sanders Thompson
2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
NANCY L. MARSHALL ◽  
ANNE E. NOONAN ◽  
KATHLEEN McCARTNEY ◽  
FERN MARX ◽  
NANCY KEEFE

This study examined the extent to which an urban village exists, in a sample of 206 African American, European American, and Hispanic American families with an elementary schoolaged child. The urban village was evident in parental social networks with family, friends, and neighbors, although the nature of these networks varied. Multiple regression analyses indicated that parental social networks have an indirect effect on children's socioemotional development, mediated by parenting. Parents who received more emotional support and had less homogeneous social networks were more warm and responsive, provided a more stimulating home environment, and felt more effective as parents. These parenting characteristics, in turn, were associated with fewer behavior problems and more social competence in the children.


Author(s):  
Jill D. Snider

This chapter examines the Carthage, NC, childhood of African American inventor and entrepreneur Lucean Arthur Headen, with special attention paid to the social networks Headen’s family forged and to the mentors who inspired him to become an inventor. It describes the influence of former slave artisans, among them his grandfather, a wheelwright for the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company, and his great-uncle, a nationally known toolmaker, who schooled him in mechanics; his father, a sawmill owner, who sparked his entrepreneurial ambitions; and aunts and uncles active in the Presbyterian Church and Republican Party, who offered important social connections. Finally, it describes the economic strategy demonstrated for Headen by Rev. Henry D. Wood, who built a diverse coalition of supporters to finance the construction of John Hall Presbyterian Church and Dayton Academy (the church and school Headen attended). Headen later adapted this coalition-building model to finance his first inventions and business efforts.


2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Burke Wood ◽  
Rod K. Brunson

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (S8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A Fields ◽  
Leah K Forsberg ◽  
Matthew Knutson ◽  
Sara J Seifert ◽  
Emily A Farah‐Milller ◽  
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