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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783866103321

Autore

Jewell K. Sue

Titolo

From mammy to Miss America and beyond [[electronic resource] ] : cultural images and the shaping of US social policy / / K. Sue Jewell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993

ISBN

0-203-22144-3

0-203-32446-3

1-280-32317-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/896073

305.48896073

Soggetti

African American women

United States Social policy 1980-1993

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-230) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS

Sommario/riassunto

How do the mass media contribute to the social and economic advantages of the privileged and the subjection of African American women?  Does America really care about providing equal opportunities for African American women? Passionately written and supported with detailed evidence this book shows the deeply rooted abiding cancer of oppresion in American society.  It reveals the formal and informal ways in which African American women have been exluded from equal participation before and after the time of slavery.  It will shock many who complacently believe that America is already a land on e