"Bart Landry's "Black Working Wives" is a very comprehensive account of the family revolution in America. I learned a great deal reading this thoughtful book. Landry's discussion of the dual career marriages of black women decades before the feminist revolution, and the lessons they provide not only for understanding dynamic changes in American families but also for anticipating the future of the modern two-career family, is insightful and persuasive."--William Julius Wilson, author of "The Bridge over the Racial Divide" ...
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"Bart Landry's "Black Working Wives" is a very comprehensive account of the family revolution in America. I learned a great deal reading this thoughtful book. Landry's discussion of the dual career marriages of black women decades before the feminist revolution, and the lessons they provide not only for understanding dynamic changes in American families but also for anticipating the future of the modern two-career family, is insightful and persuasive."--William Julius Wilson, author of "The Bridge over the Racial Divide" "Bart Landry's "Black Working Wives" is a perceptive analysis that connects the historical circumstances of Black women to the transformation of modern American family structures. This is an important contribution which should engage general readers, students, and public policy leaders and deepen our understanding of the origins and value of the dual career family."--Darlene Clark Hine, author of "Speak Truth to Power" "Landry blends history, demography, and contemporary social analysis to illuminate the form and function of African-American families over time. He does a particularly good job of describing how, decades ago, middle-class black families prefigured the relatively egalitarian, two-wage earner households that are so common today. An incisive and rewarding book."--Jacqueline Jones, author of "American Work" "This is first-rate, engaging, provocative, solid scholarship. I enthusiastically recommend it!"--Walter R. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles "Landry has made a significant contribution to an existing body of literature on the family and race--and, more important, he has advanced a position that is not present in that literature."--Troy Duster, University of California, Berkeley, and New York University "A very important book that contributes vitally to the small but growing literature on African American women and their agency in making lives for themselves and their families and in shaping American society."--Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College
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