Black children and poverty: a developmental perspective.

Abstract

This volume of New Directions for Child Development presents recent reseach and theories about Black children in poverty or at risk of poverty, looking at how the functional coping of strategies of families, partiularly extended families, buffer and protect the children's early development. The sourcebook analyzes the strengths and weakneses of Black childhood socialization a revealed in contemporary developmental literature, and, discussing what we know today about the resiliencies of Black children and families in poverty, investigates how the information obtained over the past twenty years since Moynihan 1965) report applies to the futures of Black children. This is the 42nd issue of New Directions for Child Development. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.

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