Mandela's Children: Growing Up in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Mandela's Children: Growing Up in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Mandela's Children: Growing Up in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Mandela's Children: Growing Up in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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Overview

There is a gap between the hope for improved social conditions in post-apartheid South Africa and the grim reality of black life there is especially striking for South African children who face serious threats to their health and development as a consequence of poverty, racism, violence, and residual social inequality. Mandela's Children presents the contrasting conditions of hope and peril that characterize life in South African families, schools, and communities. Using empirical data and qualitative case studies, the authors analyze and discuss research on children's behavioral, emotional, and academic development and how they are influenced by community violence, household poverty and family functioning. This discussion is balanced by one that considers the competence, health and resilience of South African children.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136688720
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/26/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 328
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Barbarin, Oscar A.; Richter, Linda M.

Table of Contents

1. Social Transformation and Child Development in South Africa
2. A Brief History of Institutional Racism in South Africa
3. Urban Poverty and Living Standards
4. The Decline of Political Violence
5. Rising Family and Community Violence
6. Physical Growth and Social Development
7. Self-Regulation of Attention, Behavior, and Emotions
8. Urban Households and Family Relationships
9. Family Influences on Socioemotional Development
10. Poverty and Child Development
11. The Impact of Violence on Children
12. Comparing the social development of South African, Ugandan, and African American Children
13. Between Hope and Peril: Adaptive Families, Resilient Children
14. Addressing the Needs of Children

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