Elaine Bell Kaplan
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Expertise Summary
Expert on the Black family structures, gender, race, and class issues
Expertise
- black families
- black children and youth
- black teenage mothers
- African American families' influence ontheir adolescent children's academicachievement
- race and ethnic relations
- racial and ethnic women
- gender-, race- and class-related issues
- black poor, working-class and middle-class families
- adolescents - comparisons amongblack, Latino and white teenagers
- baby boomer parenting
- spying on teenagers
- family relationships
Additional Information
- 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
- Using Food as a Metaphor for Care: Middle-School Kids Talk about Family, School, and Class Relationships