Balm for Gilead: Pastoral Care for African American Families Experiencing Abuse
Author: Toinette M. Eugene, James N. Poling
ISBN: 0687023475

Balm for Gilead expands our understanding of the role of the Black Church as an agent of care and reconciliation for African American families experiencing the results of child and domestic abuse. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries of pastoral care, theology, and ethics, this book provides a major examination of core issues of family violence. Balm for Gilead is indispensable for pastoral leaders whose ministry and profession is often the only hope of healing and reconciliation available or acceptable of African American families.

Family Violence and Men of Color: Healing the Wounded Male Spirit (Springer Series: Focus on Men)
Author: Ricardo Carrillo (Editor), Jerry Tello (Editor)
ISBN: 0826111734

Reviews research on the prevalence of homicide, child abuse, and domestic violence in special populations, including African American, Latino/ Chicano, Asian American, and Native American.

Interpersonal Violence in the African-American Community: Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment Practices (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives)
Author: Robert L. Hampton
ISBN: 0387295976

This volume in the Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives series examines the psychological and sociological factors accounting for this violence from an African-American perspective. Further, it critically examines the current evidence based research as it applies to African-Americans. Topics addressed in this volume include child abuse, spousal abuse, domestic partner abuse, grandparents as parents, the church and African-Americans, spirituality, prevention and evaluation issues. Interpersonal Violence in the African American Community: Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment Practices provides a solid foundation for understanding violence within the African-American community from the perspective of African Americans as well as much-needed information on the development of evidence-based practices. This volume challenges existing stereotypes of African Americans and offers concrete, state-of-the-art advice on approaches that are, or might be, effective with African-American populations. Psychologist and allied professionals working in protective services, domestic violence shelters, and schools will find the book’s contents helpful to their practices. In addition to psychologists, the book is targeted to social workers, marriage and family therapists and other helping professionals working with the African-American community.

Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence and Resistance Ethics
Author: Traci C. West
ISBN: 0814793347

Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. West, a black feminist Christian ethicist, situates spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault against African American women.

Distinctive for its treatment of the role of the church in response to violence against African American women, the book identifies specific social mechanisms which contribute to the reproduction of intimate violence. West insists that cultural beliefs as well as institutional practices must be altered if we are to combat the reproduction of violence, and suggests methods of resistance which can be utilized by victim-survivors, those in the helping professions, and the church.

Black Family Violence: Current Research and Theory
Author: Robert L Hampton
ISBN: 0739102648

In this comprehensive volume, Hampton and others from the fields of sociology, anthropology, criminal justice, and psychology examine violence in black families, exploring a range of topics including child maltreatment, marital violence, abuse of the elderly, and family homicides.

Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women
Author: Beth Richie
ISBN: 0415911451

Richie has taken on one of the most contested issues within the community: African American women battered by African American men. For her study, she concentrates on a group of 37 women detained at Rikers Island, who come from a background of poverty and physical and emotional abuse. Richie claims that their experiences represent the extreme of what many African American women undergo as a result of marginalization and hard choices. Throughout she emphasizes her theory of gender entrapment, whereby society provides these women, most of whom want to conform to societal norms, with no socially acceptable way to change their position, making incarceration almost inevitable. Many of the interviewees were determined not to speak out against African American men, believing that their partners already have fewer opportunities than they do. Others believe that, having participated in criminal acts, they are prohibited from taking advantage of social programs designed to help battered women. Although often academically dry and statistical, Richie's book still allows ample room for the women's compelling life histories.

Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue (Women & Therapy)
Author: Carolyn M. West (Editor)
ISBN: 0789019957

Written from a Black feminist perspective by therapists, researchers, activists, and survivors, this volume sheds new light on an understudied field, providing a forum where personal testimony and academic research show how living at the intersectin of many kinds of oppression shapes the lives of women. Moving case-studies, in-depth discussions of activism and resistance, and suggestions for treatment and intervention.

The Violent Social World of Black Men
Author: William Oliver
ISBN: 0787943053

This powerful book discusses the causes and effects of the high rates of black-on-black violence, and examines circumstances that lead to arguments and violent confrontations.

Battered Black Women And Welfare Reform: Between a Rock And a Hard Place (Suny Series in African American Studies)
Author: Dana-ain Davis
ISBN: 0791468437
This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dana-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered women’s shelter in a small city in upstate New York. She explores the contradictions between welfare reform’s supposed success in moving women off of public assistance and toward economic self-sufficiency and the consequences welfare reform policy has presented for Black women fleeing domestic violence. Focusing on the intersection of poverty, violence, and race, she demonstrates the differential treatment that Black and White women face in their entanglements with the welfare bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to the larger political economy of a small city, neoliberal social policies, and racialized ideas about Black women as workers and mothers.