Elaine Bell Kaplan
Associate, Professor of Sociology Associate, American Studies
Contact at: (213) 740-8865 or ekaplan@usc.edu
Expertise:
- black families
- black children and youth
- black teenage mothers
- African American families' influence on
their adolescent children's academic
achievement
- race and ethnic relations
- racial and ethnic women
- gender-, race- and class-related issues
- black poor, working-class and middle-
class families
- adolescents - comparisons among
black, Latino and white teenagers
- baby boomer parenting
- spying on teenagers
- family relationships
- Author of Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage
Motherhood (1997); Women's Perceptions of Their Adolescent
Experiences; It's Going Good: Black and Latino Adolescents'
Perceptions about Achieving an Education; Black Teenage Mothers
and Their Mothers: The Impact of Adolescent Childbearing on
Daughters' Relations with Mothers; and Using Food as a Metaphor
for Care: Middle-School Kids Talk about Family, School and Class
Relationships
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