Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781563249457)

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.

Author: Yanick St Jean, Joe R. Feagin
ISBN-10: 1563249456
ISBN-13: 9781563249457
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/30/1999
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.63d