Double Burden, Black Women and Everyday Racism Book uri icon

abstract

  • 1998 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. 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.

altmetric score

  • 13

author list (cited authors)

  • St. Jean, Y., & Feagin, J. R.

citation count

  • 26

complete list of authors

  • St. Jean, Yanick||Feagin, Joe R

publication date

  • March 2015