Jennifer Hamer: 4 books
What It Means to Be Daddy
Fatherhood for Black Men Living Away from Their Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2001
Absent fathers, the breakdown of the nuclear family, and single-mother households are often blamed for the poor quality of life experienced by many African American children. Jennifer F. Hamer challenges both the imposition of an inappropriate value system and the resulting ineffectual social policies....
Abandoned in the Heartland
Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known...
South Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world...
The African American Experience
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives edited by Salman Akhtar brings together the contributions of distinguished mental health professionals and scholars of humanities to offer a multifaceted perspective on the transgenerational trauma of slavery, the hardship of single parent...