Ensuring Inequality
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| ISBN-13 | 9780199374878 |
| Open Library | OL3244963W |
| Total publications | 4 |
| Coverage period | 1997 - 2015 |
| Language | EN |
This revised edition of an award-winning book expands and updates the nuanced historical perspective used in the first edition to understand African American family patterns. The result is a well-documented narrative that challenges conventional understandings of the continuing plight of African American families. The book traces the evolution of the black family from slavery to the present, showing the cumulative effects of centuries of historical change.
Ensuring Inequality
This revised edition of an award-winning book expands and updates the nuanced historical perspective used in the first edition to understand African American family patterns. The result is a well-documented narrative that challenges conventional understandings of the continuing plight of African American families. The book traces the evolution of the black family from slavery to the present, showing the cumulative effects of centuries of historic…
Ensuring Inequality
This book expands and updates the nuanced historical perspective used in the first edition to understand African American family patterns. The result is a narrative that challenges conventional understanding of the continuing plight of African American families. The book traces the evolution of the black family from slavery to the present, showing the cumulative effects of centuries of historical change. Beginning with a richly researched account…
World War II and Its Aftermath
The second part of the Great Migration out of the south was even larger than the first and resulted in the emergence of African Americans as a distinctly urban people. This chapter chronicles the stunted economic incorporation of African Americans into northern cities and the emergence of the civil rights movement. This chapter highlights both the opportunities created by the labor shortages of the war and the economic vulnerability in its afterm…
Slavery
This chapter assesses arguments about the impact of slavery on the development of a distinctive African American culture. Specifically, historical arguments about the impact of slavery on contemporary marriage and family practices are presented and evaluated. Central debates, then, as now, revolve around the degree to which culture as opposed to social conditions determines family behavior. The chapter concludes by pointing out that there was div…
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Ensuring Inequality
This book expands and updates the nuanced historical perspective used in the first edition to understand African American family patterns. The result is a narrative that challenges conventional understanding of the continuing plight of African American families. The book traces the evolution of the black family from slavery to the present, showing the cumulative effects of centuries of historical change. Beginning with a richly researched account…
World War II and Its Aftermath
The second part of the Great Migration out of the south was even larger than the first and resulted in the emergence of African Americans as a distinctly urban people. This chapter chronicles the stunted economic incorporation of African Americans into northern cities and the emergence of the civil rights movement. This chapter highlights both the opportunities created by the labor shortages of the war and the economic vulnerability in its afterm…
Slavery
This chapter assesses arguments about the impact of slavery on the development of a distinctive African American culture. Specifically, historical arguments about the impact of slavery on contemporary marriage and family practices are presented and evaluated. Central debates, then, as now, revolve around the degree to which culture as opposed to social conditions determines family behavior. The chapter concludes by pointing out that there was div…
Ensuring Inequality
This revised edition of an award-winning book expands and updates the nuanced historical perspective used in the first edition to understand African American family patterns. The result is a well-documented narrative that challenges conventional understandings of the continuing plight of African American families. The book traces the evolution of the black family from slavery to the present, showing the cumulative effects of centuries of historic…