Behind Ghetto Walls Black Families in a Federal Slum by Lee Rainwater ISBN 13: 9780202309071

New. This book is about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis. The Pruitt-Igoe project is only one of the many environments in which urban Negro Americans lived in the 1960s, but the character of the family life there shares much with the family life of lower-class Negroes as it has been described by other investigators in other cities and at other times, in Harlem, Chicago, New Orleans, or Washington D.C. This book is primarily concerned with private life as it is lived from day to day in a federally built and supported slum. The questions, which are treated here, have to do with the kinds of interpersonal relationships that develop in nuclear families, the socialization processes that operate in families as children grow up in a slum environment, the informal relationships of children and adolescents and adults with each other, and, finally, the world views (the existential framework) arising from the life experiences of the… Read More

Aldine De Gruyter, 2006. Paperback. New. 572 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.25 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. Talks about the family lives of some 10,000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis. This book is concerned with private life as it is lived from day to day in a federally built and supported slum. It pays attention to how each new generation of parents expresses the cultural and social structural forces.

Aldine De Gruyter, 2006. Paperback. New. 572 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.25 inches.

Routledge. Paperback. New. 8x5x1. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

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