Title African Americans at risk : issues in education, health, community, and justice / Glenn L. Starks.

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Santa Barbara, CA : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]

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Description	1 online resource.
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].
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	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.
Subject	African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
	African Americans -- Education -- 21st century.
	African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- 21st century.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
	African Americans -- Education -- 21st century.
	African Americans -- Education.
	African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- 21st century.
	African Americans -- Health and hygiene.
	African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
	African Americans -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Starks, Glenn L., 1966- African Americans at risk 9781440800757 (DLC) 2014045530 (OCoLC)895731295
ISBN	9781440800764 electronic bk.
	1440800766 electronic bk.

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