"Bart Landry's "Black Working Wives is a perceptive analysis that connects the historical circumstances of Black women to the transformation of modern American family structures. This is an important contribution which should engage general readers, students, and public policy leaders and deepen our understanding of the origins and value of the dual career family."--Darlene Clark Hine, author of "Speak Truth to Power
"Landry blends history, demography, and contemporary social analysis to illuminate the form and function of African-American families over time. He does a particularly good job of describing how, decades ago, middle-class black families prefigured the relatively egalitarian, two-wage earner households that are so common today. An incisive and rewarding book."--Jacqueline Jones, author of "American Work
"This is first-rate, engaging, provocative, solid scholarship. I enthusiastically recommend it!"--Walter R. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles
"Landry has made a significant contribution to an existing body of literature on the family and race--and, more important, he has advanced a position that is not present in that literature."--TroyDuster, University of California, Berkeley, and New York University
"A very important book that contributes vitally to the small but growing literature on African American women and their agency in making lives for themselves and their families and in shaping American society."--Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College
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"Bart Landry's "Black Working Wives is a perceptive analysis that connects the historical circumstances of Black women to the transformation of modern American family structures. This is an important contribution which should engage general readers, students, and public policy leaders and deepen our understanding of the origins and value of the dual career family."--Darlene Clark Hine, author of "Speak Truth to Power
"Landry blends history, demography, and contemporary social analysis to illuminate the form and function of African-American families over time. He does a particularly good job of describing how, decades ago, middle-class black families prefigured the relatively egalitarian, two-wage earner households that are so common today. An incisive and rewarding book."--Jacqueline Jones, author of "American Work
"This is first-rate, engaging, provocative, solid scholarship. I enthusiastically recommend it!"--Walter R. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles
"Landry has made a significant contribution to an existing body of literature on the family and race--and, more important, he has advanced a position that is not present in that literature."--TroyDuster, University of California, Berkeley, and New York University
"A very important book that contributes vitally to the small but growing literature on African American women and their agency in making lives for themselves and their families and in shaping American society."--Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College
Imprint | University of California Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | August 2002 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 7 - 13 working days |
First published | August 2002 |
Authors | Bart Landry |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 273 |
Edition | Revised ed. |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-23682-0 |
Barcode | 9780520236820 |
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LSN | 0-520-23682-3 |