Black Children

Harriette Pipes McAdoo is a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, Department of Family and Child Ecology. Previously, she was Professor at Howard University in the School of Social Work and Visiting Lecturer at Smith College, the University of Washington, and the University of Minnesota. She is a Director of the Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family; was a National Adviser to the President of the White House Conference on Families; was former President and Board Member of the National Council on Family Relations; and was a member of the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development. She was the first person honored by the National Council on Family Relations with the Marie Peters Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Leadership, and Service in the Area of Ethnic Minority Families. Dr. McAdoo received her B.A. and M.A. from Michigan State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and she has done post-doctoral studies at Harvard University. She has published on racial attitudes and self-esteem in young children, Black mobility patterns, coping strategies of single mothers, and professional Kenyan women and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe. She is editor of Black Children: Social, Educational, and Parental Environments, Second Edition (2002, SAGE) and Family Ethnicity: Strength in Diversity, Second Edition (1999, SAGE), as well as Young Families, Program Review, and Policy Recommendations. She is coauthor of Women and Children, Alonge and in Poverty. She has four children and four grandchildren.

Foreword - A.G. Hilliard III Preface - H.P. McAdoo PART I. PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENTING 1. The Dynamics of African American Fathers' Family Roles - H.P. McAdoo & J.L. McAdoo 2. Diverse Children of Color: Research and Policy Implications - H.P. McAdoo 3. African American Grandmothers' and Grandfathers' Influence in the Value Socialization of Grandchildren - L. McWright PART II. RACIAL MESSAGES 4. The Village Talks: Racial Socialization of Our Children - H.P. McAdoo 5. Racial Socialization of Young Black Children - M.F. Peters 6. Racial Identity Development in African American Children: Cognitive and Experiential Antecedents - C.B. Murray & J. Mandara 7. Racial Socialization Processes in Single-Mother Families: Linking Maternal Racial Identity, Parenting, and Racial Socialization in Rural, Single-Mother Families With Child Self-Worth and Self-Regulation - V.M. Murry & G.H. Brody PART III. EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS OF CHILDREN 8. A Psychological and Educational Perspective on Black Parenting - A.J. Franklin et al. 9. Family and Child Influences on Educational Attainment: A Secondary Analysis of the High/Scope Perry Preschool Data - T. Luster & H.P. McAdoo 10. Sankofa Shule Spells Success for African American Children - S.W. Rivers & F.A. Rivers PART IV. CONFLICT IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN 11. Conflict Resolution Styles Among African American Children and Youth - A.O. Harrison-Hale 12. Violent Crime, Race, and Black Children: Parenting and the Social Contract - B.E. Lawson & R.Sanders-Lawson Index About the Editor About the Contributors

"The authors are bold in addressing the legacies of enslavement, racism, and the debilitating impact of economic exploitation at the individual, family, and community levels. BLACK CHILDREN moves us away from the traditional comparisons of black and white children in the context of Eurocentric theoretical models as the context for the study of development. The authors create a basis for an African and African American theoretical framework to guide future research, educational strategies, and community intervention." -- Barbara M. Newman