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health, mental health, and social policy
1 online resource (xi, 348 pages) : illustrations
Stepping back from the traditionally myopic view of African American males as criminals and hustlers, this book provides a more nuanced and realistic portrait of their experiences in the world, offering an overview of the social and economic data on black males to date and the issues that affect them from adolescence to adulthood.
From shortys to old heads : contemporary social trajectories of African American males across the life course / Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. -- Making room for daddy : the unmarried adolescent father's role in pregnancy / Constance M. Dallas and Karen Kavanaugh -- Intergenerational support and reciprocity between low-income African American fathers and their aging mothers / Kevin M. Roy, Omari L. Dyson, and Ja-Nee Jackson -- Life after PRWORA : the involvement of African American fathers with welfare-reliant children and the child support enforcement system / David J. Pate -- Men do matter : the socially supportive role of the African American "uncle" in the lives of single-female headed households and at-risk African American male youth / Joseph B. Richardson, Jr. -- School engagement, peer influences, and sexual behaviors among high school African American adolescent boys / Dexter R. Voisin and Torsten B. Neilands -- Promising practices : the positive effects of after-school programs for African American male development and educational progress / Reginald Clark, Alexes Harris, Kimberly A. White-Smith, Walter R. Allen, and Barbara A. Roy -- Academic engagement of Black male student athletes : implications for practice in secondary and postsecondary schooling / Eddie Comeaux -- What are depressed African American adolescent males saying about mental health services and providers? / Michael A. Lindsey -- Don't bother me, I can't cope : stress, coping, and problem behaviors among young African American males / M. Daniel Bennett, Jr. and Fanike K. Olugbala -- Health and young African American men : an inside view / Joseph E. Ravenell -- Health and health-care service use among middle-class Black men / Sherrill L. Sellers, Vence Bonham, Harold W. Neighbors, and Shuntay McCoy -- At the intersection of HIV/AIDS disparities : young African American men who have sex with men / Brian Mustanski, Amy Johnson, and Robert Garofalo -- Suicide among African Americans : a male's burden / Sean Joe -- Cultural interventions for reducing violence among young, African American males / Lance Williams -- Incarceration and family formation / Charles E. Lewis, Jr. -- Understanding the economic costs of incarceration for African American males / Mark L. Joseph -- The African American male : the social policy challenge of the twenty-first century / Earl S. Johnson and Waldo E. Johnson, Jr.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010