The Negro family in the United States.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frazier, E. Franklin, 1894-1962.

Series:

Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill.) ; P205.

Phoenix books ; P205

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African American families.

Black or African American.

Family.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Black or African American.

Family.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 372 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Revised and abridged edition Foreword by Nathan Glazer.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1966]

Summary:

The Negro Family in the United States, was hailed as a highly important contribution to the intimate history of the people of the United States. It was the first comprehensive study of the family life of African Americans, beginning with colonial-era slavery, extending through the years of slavery and emancipation, to the impact of Jim Crow and migrations to both southern and northern cities in the twentieth century. Frazier discussed all the themes that have concerned subsequent students of the African American family, including matriarchy and patriarchy, the impact of slavery on family solidarity and personal identity, the impact of long-term poverty and lack of access to education, migration and rootlessness, and the relationship between family and community. Frazier insisted that the characteristics of the family were shaped not by race, but by social conditions.

Contents:

Part one: In the house of the master. 1. Forgotten memories

2. Human, all too human

3. Motherhood in bondage

4. Hagar and her children

- Part two: In the house of the mother. 5. Broken bonds

6. Unfettered motherhood

7. The matriarchate

8. Granny: the guardian of generations

- Part three: The house of the father. 9. The downfall of the matriarchate

10. The sons of the free

11. Racial islands

12. Black puritans

- Part four: In the city of destruction. 13. Roving men and homeless women

14. The right from Feudal America

15. Fathers on leave

16. Outlawed motherhood

17. Rebelious youth

18. Divorce: scrip from the law

- Part five: In the city of rebirth. 19. Old families and new classes

20. The brown middle class

21. The Black proletariat

- Conclusion: 22. Retropspect and prospect.

Notes:

Revised and abridged edition originally published in 1948.

Includes bibliographical references.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1940

Other Format:

Online version: Frazier, Edward Franklin, 1894-1962. Negro family in the United States.

ISBN:

0226261417

9780226261416

0226261409

9780226261409

OCLC:

423796