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• Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color (Berkeley and Los Angeles: BerkeleyLaw, c2010), ed. by Christopher F. Edley and Jorge Ruiz-de-Velasco (PDF with commentary at boysandmenofcolor.org)
• The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965; online version omits tables and graphs), by United States Department of Labor, contrib. by Daniel P. Moynihan (HTML at dol.gov)
• The free negro family; a study of family origins before the civil war (Fisk university press, 1932), by E. Franklin Frazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The impact of community violence on African American children and families : collaborative approaches to prevention and intervention : workshop summary (National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, 1992), by Mareasa R. Isaacs, Child and Adolescent Service System Program (National Institute of Mental Health), Children's Safety Network, and National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poverty and hunger in the black family hearing before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, September 26, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poverty and hunger in the black family : hearing before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, September 26, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perspectives on the development of Afro-American children and families (AfroAmerican Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981), by Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Afro-American Studies and Research Program (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro family, the case for national action. (For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S.Govt.Print.Off.], 1982), by United States. Department of Labor. Office of Policy Planning and Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A distributional analysis of trends in energy expenditures by black households (U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Assistant Administrator for Applied Analysis :, 1980), by John M Brazzel, Leon J Hunter, United States. Energy Information Administration. Regional Socioeconomic Environmental Analysis Division, and United States. Energy Information Administration. Office of Applied Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Financial resources, parent psychological functioning, parent co-caregiving, and early adolescent reading competence in rural two-parent African American families (National Reading Research Center, 1994), by Gene H. Brody (page images at HathiTrust)

• A selected annotated bibliography on black families : prepared for home service practitioners (The Project, 1977), by National Urban League. Project Thrive and Child Abuse and Neglect Resource Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Selected annotated bibliography on Black families : volume I. (Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by National Urban League and National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selected annotated bibliography on Black families (Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of [Human Development Services], Children's Bureau, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect :, 1978), by National Urban League and National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selected annotated bibliography on Black families (Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of [Human Development Services], Children's Bureau, National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1978), by National Urban League (page images at HathiTrust)

• Records of post-Civil War federal agencies at the National Archives (National Archives and Records Administration, 2010), by United States National Archives and Records Administration and Reginald Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black family research : records of post-Civil War federal agencies at the National Archives (National Archives and Records Administration, 2001), by Reginald Washington and United States National Archives and Records Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black family research : records of post-Civil War federal agencies at the National Archives (National Archives and Records Administration, 2003), by Reginald Washington and United States National Archives and Records Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black family research : records of post-Civil War federal agencies at the National Archives (National Archives and Records Administration, 2003), by United States National Archives and Records Administration and Reginald Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Comedy, American Style (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1933), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Garies and Their Friends, by Frank J. Webb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text)
• The Hazeley Family (Philadelphia: American Baptist Pub. Society, c1894), by A. E. Johnson (Gutenberg text)
• Family of Destiny (New York: Pageant Press, c1954), by Charles L. Tarter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), by Willa Cather (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (London: Partridge and Oakley, 1853), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Clotelle (Boston: J. Redpath, 1864), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or, The Colored Heroine (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg text)
• The Sport of the Gods, by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Gutenberg text)
• Comedy, American style (AMS Press, 1969), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colored heroine. (Lee & Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown, Geo. C. Rand & Avery, and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Ordeal of Mansart (The Black Flame, book 1; New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1957), by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)

• Financial resources, parent psychological functioning, parent co-caregiving, and early adolescent reading competence in rural two-parent African American families (National Reading Research Center, 1994), by Gene H. Brody (page images at HathiTrust)

• African American Family Commission annual report (The Commission, 1995), by African-American Family Commission (Ill.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• African American Family Commission annual report (The Commission, 1995), by African-American Family Commission (Ill.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (first edition, 1945), by Richard Wright, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Coping with poverty : the social contexts of neighborhood, work, and family in the African-American community (University of Michigan Press, 2000), by Ann Chih Lin and Sheldon Danziger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Black men and boys in the District of Columbia and their impact on the future of the black family : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, September 12, 2003. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United State House Committee on Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)

• Financial resources, parent psychological functioning, parent co-caregiving, and early adolescent reading competence in rural two-parent African American families (National Reading Research Center, 1994), by Gene H. Brody (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black men and boys in the District of Columbia and their impact on the future of the black family : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, September 12, 2003. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2003), by United State House Committee on Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Who Owns the Family? God or the State? (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by Ray R. Sutton (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Family in Society (1970), by Floyd Mansfield Martinson (HTML and PDF at ipce.info)
• Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields DeRose, and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• The Managed Casualty: The Japanese-American Family in World War II (University of California Publications in Culture and Society v6; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956), by Leonard Broom and John I. Kitsuse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adolescent marijuana abusers and their families (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Division of Research ;, 1981), by Herbert Hendin and National Institute on Drug Abuse. Division of Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• The family : preserving America's future : a report (The Group, 1986), by United States. Dept. of Education. Working Group on the Family (page images at HathiTrust)
• Families and housing markets : obstacles to locating suitable housing (Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development :, 1980), by Margaret C. Simms, Urban Institute, and United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• White House Conference on Families, 1978 joint hearings before the Subcommittee on Child and Human Development of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, and the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session ... February 2 and 3, 1978. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development, Carnegie Council on Children, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Families today : a research sampler on families and children (National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Scientific and Public Information ;, 1979), by Eunice Luccock Corfman and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Division of Scientific and Public Information (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women and their families in our rapidly changing society ; report to the Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women. (Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women], 1968), by Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women (U.S.). Task Force on Health and Welfare and United States. President's Commission on the Status of Women. Committee on Home and Community (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clan, caste, and club. (Van Nostrand, 1963), by Francis L. K. Hsu (page images at HathiTrust)
• American families (Wiley, 1957), by Paul C. Glick and Social Science Research Council (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guides on federal regulations governing service programs for families and children: Title IV, Parts A and B, Social security Act. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1969), by United States Children's Bureau and United States (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Negro family; the case for national action. (For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1965), by United States. Department of Labor. Office of Policy Planning and Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• The extended family society's forgotten resources : hearing before the Subcommittee on Aging, Family, and Human Services of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on examination on federal policies regarding problems of the social welfare delivery system, and public assistance, focusing on the extended family, May 11, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O. ;, 1982), by Family United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paternal absence and fathers' roles hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demographic and social trends implications for federal support of dependent-care services for children and the elderly (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Families and child care improving the options : a report (U.S. G.P.O., 1985), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forum for families quality of American family life : hearing before the Subcommittee on Family and Human Services of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on examination of federal policies intended to preserve and increase the quality of American family life; a prelude to National Family Week and National Adoption Week, November 18, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Family and Human Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new unemployed long-term consequences for their families : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, hearing held in Detroit, MI, on March 5, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Violence and abuse in American families hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, on June 14, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O., 1985), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investing in America's families the common bond of generations : hearing before Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, April 8, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diversity and strength of American families hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 25, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impact of alcoholism on the family, 1977 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session ... June 20, 1977, Salt Lake City, Utah. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off. :, 1978), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the use of sibling data to estimate the effects of family background, cognitive skills, and schooling : results from the Kalamazoo brothers study (Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, 1976), by Michael R. Olneck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American families: trends and pressures, 1973 hearings, Ninety-third Congress, first session .. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crisis in homelessness : effects on children and families : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 24, 1987. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children and youth : the crisis at home for American families : hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session ... January 15, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family disruption and delinquency (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1999), by United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (page images at HathiTrust)
• A social history of the American family from colonial times to the present (Arno Press, 1917), by Arthur Wallace Calhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures of family life; young people's descriptions of family life (American Home Economics Association, 1935), by Lemo Dennis Rockwood, Marion Harlan Steele, and American Home Economics Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family life education : a problem-solving curriculum for adolescents (ages 15-19) (The Bureau ;, 1980), by Planned Parenthood Center of Memphis, United States. Health Services Administration. Office for Family Planning, and United States. Health Services Administration. Bureau of Community Health Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• America's families : conditions, trends, hopes, and fears : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 19, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demographic and social trends : implications for federal support of dependent-care services for children and the elderly (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1984), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paternal absence and fathers' roles : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1984), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Perspectives on family research : report of a workshop (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 1982), by Barbara Gray Ellis and National Institute on Drug Abuse. Division of Prevention and Treatment Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forum for families : quality of American family life : hearing before the Subcommittee on Family and Human Services of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on examination of federal policies intended to preserve and increase the quality of American family life; a prelude to National Family Week and National Adoption Week, November 18, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Family and Human Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paraprofessionals in home economics programs for low-income families. (Dept. of Agriculture, Extension Service, 1977), by United States. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Work ethic : materialism and the American family : hearing before the Subcommittee on Aging, Family, and Human Services of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on examination on the impact of stress on the family caused by the workplace, focusing on dual wage-earning parents and the effects on family relationships, and the nonworking recipient of public assistance, March 2, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by Family United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children, youth, and families : 1983, a year-end report on the activities of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, with minority views and additional views. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1984), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new unemployed : long-term consequences for their families : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, hearing held in Detroit, MI, on March 5, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1984), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• The extended family : society's forgotten resources : hearing before the Subcommittee on Aging, Family, and Human Services of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on examination on federal policies regarding problems of the social welfare delivery system, and public assistance, focusing on the extended family, May 11, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O. ;, 1982), by Family United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diversity and strength of American families : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 25, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family and economic well-being : a Cooperative Extension System response. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Extension Service, 1988), by United States. Extension Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Task Force on Family Law and Policy : to the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women, April, 1968. (U.S. G.P.O., 1968), by Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Task Force on Family Law and Policy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Households and families. (Washington, D.C. : Social Research Services, American Council of Life Insurance, 1978), by American Council of Life Insurance. Social Research Services (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Preparing for the economy of the 21st century : hearings before the Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session ... March 5 and 10, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by Family United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communication for empowerment : a facilitator's manual of empowering teaching techniques (Family Matters Project, Cornell University :, 1984), by Virginia Vanderslice and Cornell University. Family Matters Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Families first : report of the National Commission on America's Urban Families (The Commission :, 1993), by National Commission on America's Urban Families (U.S.) and United States. President (1989-1993 : Bush) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primary intervention in societal problems : the role of the family, 1981 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Aging, Family, and Human Services of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, on examination on the issue of primary intervention in addressing societal problems, focusing on the causes of the problems and efforts to alleviate conditions which result in the social ills confronting this nation, September 17, 1981. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1981), by Family United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special issues . (S. Usher., between 1000 and 1999), by National League for the Protection of the Family (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Families and child care : improving the options : a report (U.S. G.P.O., 1985), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investing in America's families : the common bond of generations : hearing before Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, April 8, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good family life ... the democratic way ([College Station, Texas] : [Extension Service, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas], 1941., 1941), by Dosca Hale, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Extension Service, and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Problems of the family (Bobbs-Merrill, 1962), by Fowler V. Harper, Jerome H Skolinck, and Jerome H. Skolnick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Survey of institutions participating in the federal direct loan and federal family education loan programs. (Macro International Inc., in the 1990s), by United States. Office of the Under Secretary and United States Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• When a family faces stress. (Public Affairs Committee, 1963), by Elizabeth Ogg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Taxes and birth control. (Carlton Press, 1962), by Robert Sparrow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The future of the American family (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1979), by Paul C Glick and Jacob S. Siegel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parenthood : a guide (Vantage Press, 1962), by Adam A. Hummel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A social history of the American family. (Barnes & Noble, 1960), by Arthur Wallace Calhoun (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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