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Highlighting the strengths of African American families: The family center's approach
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Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences
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April 1, 1998
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Copyright informationCopyright American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences Spring 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract: Studies in the past have chronicled more pathological aspects of African American family life than the strengths they have generated to cope successfully with the economic and social ills they have faced. As we move into the new millennium, Family and Consumer Sciences professionals must be a driving force in using strategic ways to highlight strengths of African American families that have enabled them to sustain, survive, and thrive in a world that doesn't appear to support their well-being.
African American families have thrived in spite of the countless devastating conditions they have experienced since being brought to the United States in 1619 as slaves. Nevertheless, the ...