Black Families at the Crossroads: Challenges and Prospects

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This updated edition of the classic book "Black Families at the Crossroads, offers a comprehensive examination of the diverse and complex issues surrounding Black families. Leanor Boulin Johnson and Robert Staples combine more than sixty years of writing and research on Black families to offer insights into the pre-slavery development of the Black middle class, internal processes that affect all class strata among Black American families, the impact of race on modern Black immigrant families, the interaction of external forces and internal norms at each stage of the Black family life cycle, and public policies that provide challenges and promising prospects for the continuing resilience of the Black family as an American institution. This thoroughly revised edition features new research, including empirical studies and theoretical applications, and a review of significant social polices and economic changes in the past decade and their impact on Black families.



Building Furniture for Country Living

7Covers a broad range of techniques making this book a great guide for woodworkers whow want to learn about furniture making7Country furniture is comfort furniture that will help the reader recreate their home environmentThis book contains all the instruction needed to make 15 country-comfort furniture projects that will add warmth and style to any home. Compiled from furniture makers with decades of experience, this book features furniture designs that will teach any aspiring furniture maker all the essential techniques and design considerations needed to make furniture. Complete with step-by-step photos with captions, measured drawings, and complete cutting and hardware lists, woodworkers will find everything they need to make their own comfort furniture within these pages. Contributing builders include Glen Huey, Kerry Pierce, Bill Hylton and more. Building Furniture for Country Living
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Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

During the reings of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92), fashion and furniture were not meant simply to be beautiful but were also intended to arouse, attract, and seduce. Published in response to the critically acclaimed and hugely popular exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in the fall of 2004, "Dangerous Liaisons Will focus on fashion and its interplay with the art, furniture, and decorative arts of eighteenth-century France. Featuring beautiful color photographs of the exhibition's installation, details of the garments, and supplementary historical material, the book demonstrates how the extravagant clothing of the period reiterated the splendor of Rococo and Neoclassical interiors. Either as as souvenir of the Museum's exhibition or as a fascinating survey of eighteenth-century French fashion, decorative arts, history, and culture, "Dangerous Haisons is an essential book to own. Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
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