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This is your first step into a new era! The bride is making herself ready for the return of Christ, and He is preparing that bride to be His hands and His feet, as well as revealing His heart of love for planet earth. This can only happen as we allow Him to transform us into His image: free from anxiety, doubt, fear, anger, bitterness, hatred, and shame. He is ready and waiting for us to bring our grief, our trauma, and all of the painful scar...

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system.

The year is 1861. There is a slave auction at Walnut Creek. Annie and James are there, for Annie to bid for slaves. She is successful to buy the ones she wanted and Annie is also disgusted with the condition the slave are in. Annie instructs James to take the shackles off of them. The slaves are shocked, because James and Annie is treating them like human beings, instead of animals. The slaves are taken to Annie home were they took a bath and ...

80, 000 African Americans have sickle cell disease (SCD). This study documents in social, economic and cultural terms, the daily lives of families living with this threatening illness. It looks particularly at 32 single-mother, low-income families, and how caregiving shapes their social world.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system.

A brief, impactful book that provides a contemporary analysis of how economics and social class affects the concept of family today. This book focuses on the impact of economic systems and social class on the organization of family life. Since the most vital function of the family is the survival of its members, the author give primacy to the economic system in structuring the broad parameters of family life, that is, the economy shapes the ...

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Presents a comprehensive account of sickle cell disease (SCD) and its affect on low-income families. This book examines how low-income African American mothers with children suffering from this hereditary, incurable, and chronically painful disease, react to the diagnosis and manage their family's health care.

In Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships, Shirley A. Hill applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. This book will be useful to students and instructors of African American Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Marriage and Family, and Social Work.

African American Children is a comprehensive exploration of historical and contemporary patterns of parenting in black families. Historically, it focuses on how slavery, race, the racial caste system and Black culture influenced the ways in which Blacks parented their children. This series of social forces seriously circumscribed the ability of African Americans to conform to the ideologies about the nature of children and the roles of parents...