Race Work And Family In The Lives Of African Americans
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Author |
: Marlese Durr |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0742534677 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780742534674 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race, Work, and Family in the Lives of African Americans by : Marlese Durr
Family and work are major, integrally related dimensions of social life which affect the well-being and success of family members. As social institutions, family and work are also avenues where social inequality may be understood as a major element in the distribution of social, cultural, and economic resources and sites where inequality is perpetuated, negotiated, and contested. In this book, editors Durr and Hill focus on African Americans, navigating the terrain of race, work, and family, and examining persistent barriers to equality and ways in which Blacks have sought to become an integral part of the American economy.
Author |
: Matthew C. Whitaker |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2007-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 080326027X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803260276 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis Race Work by : Matthew C. Whitaker
Nearly sixty years ago, Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale descended upon the isolated, somewhat desolate, and entirely segregated city of Phoenix, Arizona, in search of freedom and opportunity?a move that would ultimately transform an entire city and, arguably, the nation. Race Work tells the story of this remarkable pair, two of the most influential black activists of the post?World War II American West, and through their story, supplies a missing chapter in the history of the civil rights movement, American race relations, African Americans, and the American West. ø Matthew C. Whitaker explores the Ragsdales? family history and how their familial traditions of entrepreneurship, professionalism, activism, and ?race work? helped form their activist identity and placed them in a position to help desegregate Phoenix. His work, the first sustained account of white supremacy and black resistance in Phoenix, also uses the lives of the Ragsdales to examine themes of domination, resistance, interracial coalition building, race, gender, and place against the backdrop of the civil rights and post?civil rights eras. An absorbing biography that provides insight into African Americans? quest for freedom, Race Work reveals the lives of the Ragsdales as powerful symbols of black leadership who illuminate the problems and progress in African American history, American Western history, and American history during the post?World War II era.
Author |
: Roberta L. Coles |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0761988645 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780761988649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race and Family by : Roberta L. Coles
In Race and Family: A Structural Approach, author Roberta L. Coles looks at ethnic minority families in a novel way— through a structural lens. Unlike many texts on race and family, this book offers an approach that illustrates overarching structural factors affecting all families as opposed to examining each ethnicity in isolation from one another. By focusing on various structural factors such as demographic, economic, and historical aspects, this book analyzes various family trends in a cross-cutting manner to exemplify the similarities and distinctions among all racial and ethnic groups.
Author |
: Thomas Chatterton Williams |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 2019-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393608878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393608875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by : Thomas Chatterton Williams
A Time “Must-Read” Book of 2019 “[Williams] is so honest and fresh in his observations, so skillful at blending his own story with larger principles, that it is hard not to admire him.” —Andrew Solomon, New York Times Book Review (front page) The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter—and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else. In telling the story of his family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white, he reckons with the way we choose to see and define ourselves. Self-Portrait in Black and White is a beautifully written, urgent work for our time.
Author |
: Fiona Mills |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 185 |
Release |
: 2016-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1443890227 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781443890229 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Like One of the Family by : Fiona Mills
Kathryn Stockett's 2009 best-selling novel The Help and its subsequent 2011 film center on the experiences of African-American domestic workers living in Jackson, Mississippi. Stockett's sanitized portrayal of life in the Deep South where black women were charged with rearing white children while concurrently barred from sharing toilets and common eating areas with their employers simultaneously enthralled and disturbed readers and viewers alike. Notably, it is not the domestics themselves who render their tales but rather Eugenia Phelan, a white, twenty-something Mississippian with whom they hesitantly collaborate, who ultimately "voices" their stories of life during the harrowing early days of the Civil Rights movement in the Deep South. Essentially, these stories are articulated through the voice of a white woman; a fact that becomes even more complex when one acknowledges that this fictional tale of the inner life of black maids working in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the most notorious states in regards to racial atrocities suffered during the mid-twentieth century, is rendered through the words of a white southern writer. Despite the book's positive public reception, its sentimental portrait of the lives of African-American domestic workers is troubling due to its heavy-handed use of dialect and "feel good" message about the admirable interventions of a white protagonist intent on alleviating some suffering while glossing over the vicious attacks on African-Americans during the Civil Rights era. The issue of visibility/invisibility is central in this text. At its most basic level, the text itself has lacked traditional critical visibility, as, currently, there has been a dearth of academic books focusing on this specific novel, although the novel and subsequent film received much attention in national newspapers and magazines, as well as significant critical debate in a wide variety of online venues. This collection considers why such sterilized versions of America's complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary timeframe. Essay topics range from examinations of the laboring black female body to the impact of domestic work on families, both black and white, to explorations of the connections between rhetoric, writing and race. Also included are several comparative pieces that draw connections between Stockett's work and that of 1940s cartoonist Jackie Ormes, as well as filmic comparisons to Imitation of Life (1934 and 1959) and Black Girl (1966) by Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembéne. With a "Preface" by Trudier Harris and the inclusion of several essays previously published in Southern Quarterly and Southern Cultures, this volume represents the first text dedicated solely to Stockett's wildly popular novel and its subsequent film adaptation.
Author |
: Keri Leigh Merritt |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 373 |
Release |
: 2017-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107184244 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110718424X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Masterless Men by : Keri Leigh Merritt
This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.
Author |
: Angela J. Hattery |
Publisher |
: SAGE Publications |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2007-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452262390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 145226239X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis African American Families by : Angela J. Hattery
"Bravo to the authors! They have done an excellent job addressing the issues that are critical to community members, policy makers and interventionists concerned with Black families in the context of our nation." —Michael C. Lambert, University of Missouri, Colombia "African American Families is a timely work. The strength of this text lies in the depth of coverage, clarity, and the ability to combine secondary sources, statistics and qualitative data to reveal the plight of African Americans in society." —Edward Opoku-Dapaah, Winston-Salem State University "African American Families is both engaging and challenging and is perhaps one of the most important works I have read in many years. This book will most certainly move the discourse of the socio-economic conditions of black families forward, beyond the boundaries already set by other books in the market. African American Families is an excellent book whose time has come, and one that I would most definitely adopt." —Lateef O. Badru, University of Louisville African American Families provides a systematic sociological study of contemporary life for families of African descent living in the United States. Analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data, authors Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith identify the structural barriers that African Americans face in their attempts to raise their children and create loving, healthy, and raise the children of the next generation. Key Features: Uses the lens provided by the race, class, and gender paradigm: Examples illustrate the ways in which multiple systems of oppression interact with patterns of self-defeating behavior to create barriers that deny many African Americans access to the American dream. Addresses issues not fully or adequately addressed in previous books on Black families: These issues include personal responsibility and disproportionately high rates of incarceration, family violence, and chronic illnesses like HIV/AIDS. Brings statistical data to life: The authors weave personal stories based on interviews they've conducted into the usual data from scholarly(?) literature and from U.S. Census Bureau reports. Provides several illustrations from Hurricane Katrina: A contemporary analysis of a recent disaster demonstrates many of the issues presented in the book such as housing segregation and predatory lending practices. Offers extensive data tables in the appendices: Assembled in easy-to-read tables, students are given access to the latest national agencies data from agencies including the U.S. Census Bureau, Centers for Disease Control, and Bureau of Justice Statistics. Intended Audience: This is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as African American Families, Sociology of the Family, Contemporary Families, and Race and Ethnicity in the departments of Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, African American Studies, and Black Studies.
Author |
: Annette Lareau |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2011-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520271425 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520271424 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unequal Childhoods by : Annette Lareau
This book is a powerful portrayal of class inequalities in the United States. It contains insightful analysis of the processes through which inequality is reproduced, and it frankly engages with methodological and analytic dilemmas usually glossed over in academic texts.
Author |
: Leith Mullings |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2014-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136662744 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113666274X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Our Own Terms by : Leith Mullings
This volume utilizes the cross-cultural, historical and ethnographic perspective of anthropology to illuminate the intrinsic connections of race, class and gender. The author begins by discussing the manner in which her experience as a participant observer led her to research and write about various aspects of African-American women's experiences. She goes on to provide a critical analysis of the new scholarship on African-American women, and explores issues of race, class and gender in the arenas of work, kinship and resistance.
Author |
: Arthur L. Johnson |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814333702 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814333709 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race and Remembrance by : Arthur L. Johnson
Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson.