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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Postmodern Chasms: The Politics of Inequality | |
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| The Evolution of Intersectionality Theory | |
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| Focus and Framework of the Book | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| Theorizing Race: The Challenges of Black Progress, Diversity, and Decline | |
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| The Historic Diversity of African Americans | |
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| Coalescing for Racial Equality | |
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| Progress, Stagnation, and Decline | |
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| Theorizing Racism and Racial Disparities | |
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| Postmodern Diversity, Divisions, and Debates | |
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| Black Families: Beyond Revisionist Scholarship | |
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| Objectives of the Chapter | |
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| The Legacy of Slavery Thesis | |
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| The Revisionist Perspective | |
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| A Postmodern Gender Perspective | |
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| The Declining Well-Being of Single-Mother Families | |
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| Single-Mother Families: The Big Picture | |
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| Love, Sex, and Relationships: The Pursuit of Intimacy | |
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| Pursuing Gendered Intimacy | |
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| Revisioning Love and Gender | |
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| Courtship and Marriage Class Context | |
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| The Love Connection | |
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| Marriage: The Culture, Contract, and Reality | |
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| The Declining Legitimacy of Gendered Marriage | |
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| Living Single | |
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| Summary | |
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| In Search of the Village: Black Motherhood in Transition | |
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| Overview of the Chapter | |
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| From Reproductive Mandate to Voluntary Motherhood | |
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| Racialized Constructions of the "Good Mother" | |
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| Contested Visions of Motherhood | |
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| Motherhood in Class and Race Context | |
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| The Black Cultural Ethos of Motherhood | |
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| Revisiting the Village | |
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| Confronting the Challenge of Voluntary and Equitable Motherhood | |
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| Summary | |
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| Socializing Black Children: The Impact of Social Class | |
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| An Intersectionality Approach to Child Socialization | |
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| The Securely Middle Class | |
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| The Newly Middle Class | |
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| Economically Disadvantaged Families | |
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| The Perils of Poverty | |
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| Gendered Violence: Racial Oppression and the Assault on Black Women | |
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| Overview of the Chapter | |
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| (Re)Discovering Family Violence | |
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| Theorizing Intimate Partner Violence | |
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| Racial Oppression and Black Masculinity | |
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| Beyond Victimized Men: Class and Gender Subordination | |
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| Breaking the Silence and Fighting Back | |
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| Resolutions: Broadening the Vision of Liberation | |
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| Revisioning Gender? | |
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| Research Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |