Table of contents for Child Welfare Revisited: An Africentric Perspective edited by Joyce E. Everett

Introduction--Joyce E. Everett

Part I: Societal and Cultural Context

The Demography of African American Families and Children at the End of the Twentieth Century--Jacqueline Marie Smith

Institutional Racism in Child Welfare--Robert B. Hill

The Impact of Child Welfare Policies on African American Families: A Decade Later--Sandra P. Chipungu

Part II: Understanding African American Families and Children

Informing the Future of Child Welfare Practices with African American Families--Joyce O. Beckett and Nicole Lynn Lee

African American Families in Context: Internal and External Phenomena--Melvin N. Wilson, LaKeesha N. Woods, and Gina R. Hijjawi

Child-Rearing Practices in African American Families--Carmen P. Moten

Best Practices in Kinship Care for African American Mothers and Their Children--Marian S. Harris

Unwed African American Fathers' Participation in Child Welfare Permanency Planning: Caseworkers' Perspectives--Waldo E. Johnson Jr. and Vaughn D. Bryant

Part III: Using an Africentric Perspective for Practice and Service Delivery

Substance Abuse, Homelessness, HIV/AIDS, and African American Children--Joshua N. Okundaye, Claudia Lawrence--Webb, and Pamela L. Thornton

An Africentric Paradigm for Child Welfare Practice--Crystal S. Mills and Debra Porchia Usher

Family Preservation, Neighborhood-Based Services: An Africentric Perspective--Alma J. Carten and James R. Dumpson

A Culturally Competent System of Care for Addressing Mental Health Disparities in Child Welfare--Maxwell C. Manning

African American Adoptions--Ruth G. McRoy

Conclusion: Still Within Our Power

Contributors

Index