The Love Jones Cohort - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Love Jones Cohort write by Kris Marsh. This book was released on 2023-02-09. The Love Jones Cohort available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written about both the Black middle class and the rise of singlehood, this book represents a first foray into bridging these two concepts. In studying these intersections, The Love Jones Cohort provides a more nuanced understanding of how race, gender, and class, coupled with social structures, shape five central lifestyle factors of Black middle-class adults who are SALA. The book explores how these Black adults define family and friends and decide on whether and how to pursue romantic relationships, articulate the ebbs and flows of being Black and middle class, select where to live and why, accumulate and disseminate wealth, and maintain overall health, well-being, and coping mechanisms.
Singular Selves
Singular Selves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singular Selves write by Ketaki Chowkhani. This book was released on 2023-10-31. Singular Selves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, demographic studies, and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today. This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies, finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field and then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West and how class, age, gender, privilege, and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field, for example, analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role workplace, living arrangements, financial status, and gender play in single people’s life satisfaction. With an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline. This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, literature, linguistics, media studies, and psychology.
Real Sister
Real Sister - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Real Sister write by Jervette R. Ward. This book was released on 2015-11-02. Real Sister available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women, the critiques of them are arguably problematic in their own way, as the notion of “respectability” has historically been used to police black women’s behaviors. The first book of scholarship devoted to the issue of how black women are depicted on reality television, Real Sister offers an even-handed consideration of the genre. The book’s ten contributors—black female scholars from a variety of disciplines—provide a wide range of perspectives, while considering everything from Basketball Wives to Say Yes to the Dress. As regular viewers of reality television, these scholars are able to note ways in which the genre presents positive images of black womanhood, even as they catalog a litany of stereotypes about race, class, and gender that it tends to reinforce. Rather than simply dismissing reality television as “trash,” this collection takes the genre seriously, as an important touchstone in ongoing cultural debates about what constitutes “trashiness” and “respectability.” Written in an accessible style that will appeal to reality TV fans both inside and outside of academia, Real Sister thus seeks to inspire a more nuanced, thoughtful conversation about the genre’s representations and their effects on the black community.
Black Women, Gender & Families
Black Women, Gender & Families - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Women, Gender & Families write by . This book was released on 2007. Black Women, Gender & Families available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Jet
Jet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jet write by . This book was released on 2008. Jet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
