Author : Yanick St Jean
Release : 2015-03-04
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 829/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Double Burden by : Yanick St Jean
Download or read book Double Burden written by Yanick St Jean. This book was released on 2015-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.