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Stormy weather : middle-class African American marriages between the two World Wars /
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships should actually function in an ideal New Negro marriage. Shedding light on an often-overlooked aspect of African American social history, Anastasia Curwood explores the public and private negotiations over gender relationships inside marriage that consumed upwardly mobile black Americans be. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807868386 0807868388 9781469603872 146960387X |