African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender by Baer, Hans a.

African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820313771)

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African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender by Baer, Hans a.

African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender

$29.95
African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender by Baer, Hans a.

African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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This volume reflects a new commitment by American anthropologists to engage in what has been called the anthropology of racism: the analysis of systems of inequality based on biological differences. Comprising nine papers and related commentary, African Americans in the South examines racism, class stratification, and sexism as they bear on the African American struggle for social justice, equality, and cultural identity in the South.

The essays fall into three broad categories: economic survival strategies, health and reproductive problems, and religious responses to the larger society. Essays in the first category discuss African-American teen pregnancy and mutual aid societies. The second group focuses on health practices and knowledge among blacks in a Georgia town, African-American midwifery in North Carolina, an AIDS education program in a Tennessee city, and eating habits in rural North Carolina. The essays in the last category emphasize the diversity of the African-American religious experience by focusing on black Pentecostals, Jews, and Mormons in the South.

Together these writings constitute an important, concerted first engagement of issues crucial to an understanding of the history and social life of the South.

Author: Hans a. Baer
ISBN-10: 0820313777
ISBN-13: 9780820313771
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1992
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d
By Hans a. Baer
By Hans a. Baer
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Hans A. Baer (Editor)
HANS A. BAER is a professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. His books include The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism.

Yvonne Jones (Editor)
YVONNE JONES is an associate professor of anthropology and chairperson of the Department of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville. She has conducted extensive research on African American entrepreneurial activities.

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