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Issues in education, health, community, and justice

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This two-volume set examines the issues and policies that put African Americans at risk in our culture today, utilizing the most recent research from scholars in the field to provide not only objective, encyclopedic information, but also varying viewpoints to encourage critical thinking. The entries comprehensively document how African Americans are treated differently, have more negative outcomes in the same situations than other races, and face risks due to issues inherent in their past or current social and economic conditions. Care is taken to note distinctions between subgroups and not f.

Contains primary source material.

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Greenwood, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Language
English
Pages
832

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Subjects
Social conditions, Health and hygiene, Education, African Americans, African americans, social conditions, African americans, education, African americans, health and hygiene
Times
21st century

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Table of Contents

Volume 1
Section I. Education
Affirmative action
African American studies
Language and cultural barriers
No Child Left Behind/Race to the Top
Preschool/kindergarten readiness and school choice
Standardized testing
Voting/political participation
Section II. Health
Alternative healing/Folk healing
Diabetes
Heart disease
Mental health
Obesity
Domestic violence
Teenage pregnancy
Substance abuse
Section III. Family
Unemployment
Poverty
Marriage
Divorce
Alternatives to traditional marriage
Gender roles
Housing and African Americans
African American leisure
Section IV. Children
Child abuse in the African American community
Adoption
Names and African Americans
Parenting.
Volume 2
Section V. Teens
Teenage alcohol and drug abuse
Teenagers and depression
Teen pregnancy
Teenagers and sexually transmitted diseases
Teen violence
School-to-prison pipeline
Section VI. Crime and criminal justice
Discrimination in the justice system
Murder
Hate crimes
Incarceration/Prison
Rape
Robbery
Appendixes. [Source documents].

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.896/073
Library of Congress
E185.86 .S752 2015, E185.86S752 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
2 volumes (liii, 832 pages)
Number of pages
832

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OL26884254M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1440800758, 1440800766
ISBN 13
9781440800757, 9781440800764
LCCN
2014045530
OCLC/WorldCat
895731295

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