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Author Ruiz, Dorothy S. (Dorothy Smith)

Title Amazing grace [electronic resource] : African American grandmothers as caregivers and conveyers of traditional values / Dorothy Smith Ruiz ; foreword by Bert Hayslip.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

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Description xvi, 134 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-126) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Slavery, family, and religion : the traditional roles of older African American women in the antebellum south during the nineteenth cerntury -- Related research : grandparent caregiving -- Methodolgy : the custodial African American grandmother study -- Social and demographic characteristics -- Factors influencing life satisfaction among -- Social facrors, health status, and depression -- Voices of custodial grandmothers : dominant themes.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Grandparents as parents -- United States.
African American grandmothers.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0275980774 (alk. paper)

 
    
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