Double Burden - Black Women and Everyday Racism

Studies of contemporary black women are rare and scattered, and are often extensions of a legacy beginning in the 19th century that characterized black women as domineering matriarchs, prostitutes, or welfare queens, negative characterizations that are perpetuated by both white and non-white social scientists. Based on over 200 interviews, this book departs from these conventions in significant ways, and, using a "collective memory" conceptual framework, shows how black women cope with and interpret lives often limited by racial barriers not of their making.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The Lives of Black Women: Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Black Women at Work; Chapter 3 Black Beauty in a Whitewashed World; Chapter 4 Common Myths and Media Images of Black Women; Chapter 5 Distancing White Women; Chapter 6 Black Families: Goals and Responses; Chapter 7 Motherhood and Families; Chapter 8 Finale;

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Yanick St. Jean, Joe R. Feagin

Zusammenfassung

Departing from conventional studies of black women, which characterize them as domineering matriarchs, prostitutes and welfare queens, this text uses the concept of a "collective memory" to show how black women cope with and interpret lives often pervaded with racial barriers not of their making.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joe R Feagin, Yanick St Jean
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.1997
• EAN: 9781563249440
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-944-0
• Seiten: 252
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 17 mm x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 453 g
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Black & Asian Studies, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity