{"product_id":"raising-the-race-black-career-women-redefine-marriage-motherhood-and-community-hardback-9780813561998","title":"Raising the Race; Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community (Hardback) 9780813561998","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRaising the Race\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRiché J. Daniel Barnes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813561998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 3 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.626 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Raising the Race \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Dorothy Roberts (author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Rich in narrative power and in theoretical complexity, this important book defines the terrain for a new generation in work-family studies that moves beyond the past focus on white women.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Joan Williams (author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Barnes draws on interviews of 23 married professional mothers obtained through a snowball sample of women in the Atlanta area ... The method allows the author to fill a gap in the literature on black women’s work and family life and to challenge prevailing ideas about women’s strategies for addressing the work-family conflict ... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate collections and above.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Barnes's thoughtful analysis is timely and relevant for today's Black professional women and will benefit readers from a variety of levels and backgrounds\"\u003c\/div\u003e (PsycCRITIQUES) \u003cdiv\u003e\"In focusing specifically on black professional women who are also wives and mothers, Barnes makes a major contribution towards broadening sociological understandings of black families and the impacts of race across social class lines ... As a first-of-its-kind interrogation of important and timely issues, \u003ci\u003eRaising the Race\u003c\/i\u003e significantly advances our understandings of these complex social dynamics.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An excellent, well-written work for scholars and laypersons desirous of either introductory or updated information about the lifestyles of educated and wealthy African American women.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of African American History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRaising the Race\u003c\/i\u003e makes several strong contributions to work–family scholarship and should serve as a call to action, encouraging us to broaden our conversations about work and family to ensure that they reflect the diverse experiences of people across race, class, and gender. Building on her work, we can ask new questions, eschew simplistic understandings of work and family, and uncover the challenges faced by people based on race, class, gender, and other social statuses.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Family Theory and Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PwA_LTei7ow\"'\u003eLeft of Black with RichÉ Barnes, interview with host Dr. Mark Anthony Neal \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Left of Black)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaising the Race \u003c\/i\u003eis the first scholarly book to examine how black, married career women juggle their relationships with their extended and nuclear families, the expectations of the black community, and their desires to raise healthy, independent children. Drawing from extensive interviews with twenty-three Atlanta-based professional women who left or modified careers as attorneys, physicians, executives, and administrators, anthropologist RichÉ J. Daniel Barnes found that their decisions were deeply rooted in an awareness of black women’s historical struggles. Departing from the possessive individualistic discourse of “having it all,” the women profiled here think beyond their own situation-considering ways their decisions might help the entire black community.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Giving a voice to women whose perspectives have been underrepresented in debates about work-family balance, Barnes’s profiles enable us to perceive these women as fully fledged individuals, each with her own concerns and priorities. Yet Barnes is also able to locate many common themes from these black women’s experiences, and uses them to propose policy initiatives that would improve the work and family lives of \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e Americans.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Black Career Women and Strategic Mothering\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 The Role of Black Women in Black Family Survival Strategies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Black Professional Women, Careers, and Family “\u003cbr\u003eChoice”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 “\u003cbr\u003eJust in Case He Acts Crazy”\u003cbr\u003e: Strategic Mothering and the Collective Memory of Black Marriage and Family\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Enculturating the Black Professional Class\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 Black Career Women, the Black Community, and the Neo-Politics of Respectability\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Whatever Happened To . . .\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559334408472,"sku":"9780813561998","price":83.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/raising-the-race-black-career-women-redefine-marriage-motherhood-and-community-hardback-9780813561998","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}