Black families in white America

A number of American Negro fam ilies have managed to escape the more crippling consequences of pov erty and racism. What are the sources of their achievement? What are the barriers they still face as they strug gle for equality with the white mid dle class? And what about those fam ilies who still languish in the black ghettos of America? How do they break out of the ghetto and into de cent housing, jobs, and schools? In BLACK FAMILIES IN WHITE AMERICA, Andrew Billingsley, Negro social sci entist, provides answers to these and other questions.

The author a bold, reasoned analysis of the history, structure, as pirations, and problems of black fam ilies in a white-controlled society. The goal for the Negro family, says Billingsley, is to break free from white institutions. Blacks first must "manage and control their own in stitutions" before they can make a "maximum contribution to their own community munity." and the larger Community ".