Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism

ISBN-13: 9781563249440 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 252 str.

Yanick St Jean; Joe R. Feagin

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Yanick St. Jean, Joe R. Feagin