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Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community
Riché J. Daniel Barnes
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Description for Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community
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Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association
Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to “have it all,” raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet for all the articles and books written on this subject, there has been little work that focuses on the experience of African American professional women or asks how their perspectives on work-family balance might be unique.
Raising the Race is the first scholarly book to examine how black, married career women ... Read more
Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association
Popular discussions of professional women often dwell on the conflicts faced by the woman who attempts to “have it all,” raising children while climbing up the corporate ladder. Yet for all the articles and books written on this subject, there has been little work that focuses on the experience of African American professional women or asks how their perspectives on work-family balance might be unique.
Raising the Race is the first scholarly book to examine how black, married career women ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Families in Focus
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813561981
SKU
V9780813561981
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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About Riché J. Daniel Barnes
RICHÉ J. DANIEL BARNES is an affiliate professor of anthropology and the dean of Pierson College at Yale University in Connecticut. Her research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and essay collections, including The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class and The Gender, Culture, and Power Reader.
Reviews for Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community
"Raising the Race is a fascinating and original study of the lives of professional black women that contributes significantly to theorizing about women’s negotiation of family and career. Barnes expands sociological approaches to class mobility and feminist approaches to marriage, motherhood, and work by revealing how race profoundly affects the domestic strategies of these women despite their upward social mobility." ... Read more