Climbing Jacob's Ladder

Climbing Jacob's Ladder - Andrew Billingsley, focuses on the means which many African Americans have managed to survive in this country despite frequently unsupportive community and societal attitudes and pressures. Billingsley, author of Black Families in White America emphasizes the importance of the family (in all its myriad forms) as the critical factor in the process by which blacks manage to maintain not only their sense of integrity but also achieve upward mobility.