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college-educated black women and the barriers to romance and family
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Clarke, Averil Y.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwarte vrouwen, relaties, seksualiteit, geboorteregeling, sociale klasse, etniciteit, etnische groepen, sociale ongelijkheid, attituden, vrouwbeelden, discriminatie, Verenigde Staten, onderzoeksrapport
- Description
- The author uses the personal narratives of college-educated black women and national survey data to compare college-educated black women’s experiences of romance, reproduction, and family to those of less-educated black women and those of white and Hispanic women with degrees. She argues that educated black women’s disadvantages in romance and starting a family are consequences of a system of racial inequality and discrimination.
the hidden landscapes of domestic service in Johannesburg
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ginsburg, Rebecca
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- AFR 53 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- sociale klasse, etniciteit, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, huishoudsters, dienstmeisjes, woonomgeving, Zuid-Afrika
- Description
- Despite their peaceful appearance, the tree-lined streets of South African suburbia were no refuge from the racial tensions and indignities of apartheid’s most repressive years. In this book Rebecca Ginsburg provides an intimate examination of the cultural landscapes of Johannesburg’s middle- and upper-middle-class neighborhoods during the height of apartheid (c. 1960–1975) and incorporates recent scholarship on gender, the home, and family. The homes of white South Africans were sites of important contests between white privilege and black aspiration. Subtle negotiations within the domestic sphere between white, mostly female, householders and their black domestic workers, also primarily women, played out over and around this space. These seemingly mundane, private conflicts were part of larger contemporary struggles between whites and blacks over territory and power. Ginsburg gives special attention to the distinct social and racial geographies produced by the workers’ detached living quarters, designed by builders and architects as landscape complements to the main houses. Ranch houses, Italianate villas, modernist cubes, and Victorian bungalows filled Johannesburg’s suburbs. What distinguished these neighborhoods from their precedents in the United States or the United Kingdom was the presence of the ubiquitous back rooms and of the African women who inhabited them in these otherwise exclusively white areas.
gay identities, relationships, and motherhood among black women
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Moore, Mignon R.
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- zwarte vrouwen, lesbianisme, etniciteit, sociale klasse, lesbische vrouwen, lesbisch moederschap, lesbische moeders, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Drawing from interviews and surveys of one hundred black gay women in New York City the author describes the ways that race and class have influenced how these women understand their sexual orientation, find partners and form families. In particular, the study looks at the ways in which the past experiences of women who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s shape their thinking, and have structured their lives in communities that are not always accepting their openly gay status.
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