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Genre/Form: | Ethnographies History Études ethnographiques |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Powdermaker, Hortense, 1903-1970. After freedom. New York, Viking Press, 1939 (OCoLC)644155788 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hortense Powdermaker |
OCLC Number: | 1861426 |
Notes: | "First published in February 1939." |
Description: | xx, 408 pages: tables ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | by Hortense Powdermaker. |
Abstract:
"Powdermaker's work provides us with what is still a unique look at how African American men and women struggled to build families, develop capital, and create a community under conditions which made it necessary for both subjects and the observer to refer to their moment in time as 'after freedom,' though it was almost three-quarters of a century after emancipation. Her work offers us perspectives that foreshadowed contemporary ethnography's efforts to 'bring anthropology back home,' Afrocentric research's focus on Africa in America, and feminist theory's attempt to incorporate race and class into constructions of white-woman gender studies"—Brackette F. Williams and Drexel G. Woodson, University of Arizona.
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