Marriage and family among Negroes / Jessie Bernard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernard, Jessie, 1903-1996.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Spectrum book

A Spectrum book ; S-138

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Marriage.

African Americans.

Marriage--United States.

Marriage.

United States.

African American families.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 160 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966.

Contents:

The Marriage Trajectory. Introduction; Overview; The Third Phase: Reversal of Trend; The Institutionalization of Marriage among Freedmen and Their Children; Third Phase of the Marriage Trajectory: Retreating Husbands and Fathers

The Two Cultures. Introduction; Two Distinctive Styles of Adaptation; The Reshaped Culture; The Culturally White; Cases in Point; The Great Divide

People. Introduction; Women and Men; Mate Selection; Wives and Husbands; Mothers and Fathers

Socialization. Introduction; Circumstantial Socialization: Families and Homes; Masks, Roles, and the Hawthorne Effect.

Notes:

Cover design by Fred Burrell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "5" printing.

OCLC:

302152