Women of Color in U. S. Society

Name: Women of Color in U. S. Society
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ISBN: 9781566391061

ISBN-10: 1566391067

ISBN-13: 9781566391061

Edition: 1993

Authors: Maxine Baca Zinn, Bonnie T. Dill

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The theme of race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression unites these original essays about the experience of women of color-African Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. The contributing scholars discuss the social conditions that simultaneously oppress women of color and provide sites for opposition.Though diverse in their focus, the essays uncover similar experiences in the classroom, workplace, family, prison, and other settings. Working-class women, poor women, and professional women alike experience subordination, restricted participation in social institutions, and structural placement in roles with limited opportunities.How do women survive,…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 12/30/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Foreword




Introduction



Difference and Domination




Women of Color: A Demographic Overview




The Constraining Walls of Social Location



Helpers, Enforcers, and Go-Betweens: Black Females in Elementary School Classrooms




Hiring Immigrant Women: Silicon Valley's "Simple Formula"




Inside the Work Worlds of Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Women




Black Professional Women: Job Ceilings and Employment Sectors




Puerto Rican Families and Social Well-Being




Social Agency: Confronting the "Walls"



Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival




Black Women in Prison: The Price of Resistance




Cultural Survival and Contemporary American Indian Women in the City




Asian American Women at Work




"If It Wasn't for the Women...": African American Women, Community Work, and Social Change




Migration and Vietnamese American Women: Remaking Ethnicity




Rethinking Gender



Images, Ideology, and Women of Color




Different Voices, Different Visions: Gender, Culture, and Moral Reasoning




Feminist Rethinking from Racial-Ethnic Families



About the Contributors


Index