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Young, Female and Black (Hardcover, New)
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Young black women bear all the hallmarks of a fundamentally unequal
society. They do well at school, contribute to society, are good
efficient workers yet, as a group they consistently fail to secure
the economic status and occupational prestige they deserve.
Charting the experience of a group of young black women as they
leave school and enter the world of work, Heidi Safia Mirza asks
why it is that young black women suffer these injustices and
reveals the processes of inequality that, despite the ideology of a
meritocracy, persist in this society. In arguing for a more
structural understanding of inequality, "Young Female and Black"
questions the popular constructions of black female identity that
to date have been so prevalent in explanations of black female
educational achievement. In the comparative context of research and
writing from Britain, America and the Caribbean, this book
re-examines what is meant by "educational underachievement", the
"black family" and in particular, "black womanhood" in Britain.
This book should be of interest to undergraduates and
postgraduates; women's studies, sociology of race and social
policy.
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