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Author:

Jordan-Zachery, Julia Sheron.

Title:

Black women, cultural images, and social policy / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

viii, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American women--Social conditions.
African American women in popular culture.
African American women--Government policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-210) and index.

Contents:

Perceptions, culture and policy : a racing-gendering perspective -- Mythical illusions : cultural images and black womanhood -- Mammy is a maniac : black women, images and crime -- You better work : "rehabilitation" and welfare policy -- The government's "make a man kit" : family policies -- For us by us : redefining black womanhood.

Series:

Routledge studies in North American politics ; 2

ISBN:

0415996783
9780415996785

OCLC:

(OCoLC)241304355

LCCN:

2008032570

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)