Raising the Race : : Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community / / Riché J. Daniel Barnes.
Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to "have it all," raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet for...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Families in Focus
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 3 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction: Black Career Women and Strategic Mothering
- 1. The Role of Black Women in Black Family Survival Strategies
- 2. Black Professional Women, Careers, and Family "Choice"
- 3. "Just in Case He Acts Crazy": Strategic Mothering and the Collective Memory of Black Marriage and Family
- 4. Enculturating the Black Professional Class
- 5. Black Career Women, the Black Community, and the Neo-Politics of Respectability
- Conclusion: Strategic Mothering, Black Families, and the Consequences of Neoliberalism
- Epilogue: Whatever Happened To...
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index