Double Burden: Black Women and Everyday Racism

by Yanick St. Jean and Joe R. Feagin

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563249448
• ISBN13: 9781563249440
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary