Black women, cultural images, and social policy / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery.
Material type:
TextSeries: Routledge studies in North American politics ; 2.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2009Description: viii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415996783
- 9780415996785
- 0203883160
- 9780203883167
- 305.48896073 22
- E185.86 .J673 2009
Contents:
Summary: "This book examines the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women."--Publisher description.
1. Perceptions, Culture and Policy: A Racing-Gendering Perspective -- 2. Mythical Illusions: Cultural Images and Black Womanhood -- 3. Mammy is a Maniac: Black Women, Images, and Crime -- 4. You Better Work: 'Rehabilitation' and Welfare Policy -- 5. The Government's 'Make a Man Kit': Family Policies -- 6. For Us by Us: Redefining Black Womanhood.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 305.48896073 JOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A453803B |
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| 305.48896 HOO Black looks : race and representation / | 305.48896073 BLA The Black feminist reader / | 305.48896073 GOL Don't play in the sun : one woman's journey through the color complex / | 305.48896073 JOR Black women, cultural images, and social policy / | 305.488963 AMA Male daughters, female husbands : gender and sex in an African society / | 305.488963975 SCH Peasants, traders, and wives : Shona women in the history of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939 / | 305.488969729 TAT Black beauty : aesthetics, stylization, politics / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-210) and index.
1. Perceptions, Culture and Policy: A Racing-Gendering Perspective -- 2. Mythical Illusions: Cultural Images and Black Womanhood -- 3. Mammy is a Maniac: Black Women, Images, and Crime -- 4. You Better Work: 'Rehabilitation' and Welfare Policy -- 5. The Government's 'Make a Man Kit': Family Policies -- 6. For Us by Us: Redefining Black Womanhood.
"This book examines the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women."--Publisher description.
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