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Item Details
Title:
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DOUBLE BURDEN
BLACK WOMEN AND EVERYDAY RACISM |
By: |
Yanick St. Jean, Joe R. Feagin, Yanick St Jean |
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Hardback |
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£165.00 |
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£148.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
1563249448 |
ISBN 13: |
9781563249440 |
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Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC |
Pub. date: |
31 October, 1997 |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
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bibliography, index |
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US |
Imprint: |
M.E. Sharpe |
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Returnable |
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