Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism

Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism
ISBN-10
0765633698
ISBN-13
9780765633699
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
1998-01-13
Publisher
M.E. Sharpe
Authors
Joe R. Feagin, Yanick St. Jean

Description

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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