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Informationen zum Autor RICHÉ J. DANIEL BARNES is an affiliate professor of anthropology and the dean of Pierson College at Yale University in Connecticut. Her research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and essay collections, including The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class and The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader. Klappentext Raising the Race is the first study to examine how black, married career women juggle their relationships with their extended and nuclear families, the expectations of the black community, and their desires to raise healthy, independent children. Including extensive interviews from women whose voices have been underrepresented in debates about work-family balance, Riché J. Daniel Barnes draws upon their diverse perspectives to propose policy initiatives that would improve the work and family lives of all Americans. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Black Career Women and Strategic Mothering Chapter 1 The Role of Black Women in Black Family Survival Strategies Chapter 2 Black Professional Women, Careers, and Family “Choice” Chapter 3 “Just in Case He Acts Crazy”: Strategic Mothering and the Collective Memory of Black Marriage and Family Chapter 4 Enculturating the Black Professional Class Chapter 5 Black Career Women, the Black Community, and the Neo-Politics of Respectability Conclusion Epilogue: Whatever Happened To . . . Appendix Notes References Index
