Once again, Leanor Johnson and Robert Staples, who combine more than sixty years of writing and research as family sociologists, have produced a work that greatly enhances the understanding of the complexity and diversity in the functioning of Black families today. This revised edition provides rare insights regarding how the cultural values, attitudes, and aspirations of African American families interact with structural conditions and social policies to produce a wide range of positive and negative outcomes. Thus, this work makes many important contributions to our knowledge about external and internal forces that affect African American families
