Lois Rita Helmbold

Gebundenes Buch

Making Choices, Making Do

Survival Strategies of Black and White Working-Class Women During the Great Depression

Beschreibung

Working-class white and black women practiced the same Depression survival strategies across race. Archived 1930s interviews with 1,340 Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend women, and letters from domestic workers articulate common resourcefulness in employment, housework, and acquisition of relief. Institutionalized racism in employment, housing, and relief, however, assured that Black women worked harder, but fared worse.

Autor

Lois Rita Helmbold is an independent American historian and women's studies scholar. She was a professor and chair of the women's studies department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas until she retired. She is now an anti-racism social activist in Oakland, California. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781978826441
• ISBN-10: 1978826443
• Artikelnr.: 63368215