Aging in Black America

By James Caleb Jackson

An empirically based volume, Aging in Black America examines the status and life situations of elderly blacks from a perspective that addresses their special circumstances and overall coping capacity. Unlike much of the existing literature, which is usually based upon small restricted samples of black Americans, each chapter in Aging in Black America is based upon analyses of data from a national survey of the black population. This results in a broader perspective with the potential to debunk many of the myths surrounding our current understanding of black Americans. Divided into five sections which reflect the major substantive issues related to psychological and social dimensions of aging among black Americans, this important volume examines community, friends, and family; church and religion; health, social functioning, and well being; group identity and political participation; and retirement and work. Aging in Black America will broaden our understanding not only of social aging within the black population, but also the aging population in general. Both students and professionals of gerontology, social work, psychology, sociology, public health, nursing, and clinical and counseling psychology will find this volume invaluable. "Aging in Black America is the most comprehensive book to date on African-American elderly people in the United States. . . . This book would be useful as a reference in graduate courses, and actually be used as a text in courses dealing with the ageing of African-Americans. There is no doubt that its contribution to the overall gerontology literature is considerable." --Ageing & Society

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803935358
• ISBN13: 9780803935358
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.5"