{"product_id":"african-americans-in-the-south-issues-of-race-class-and-gender-9780820313771","title":"African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hans a. Baer | Yvonne Jones\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume reflects a new commitment by American anthropologists to engage in what has been called the anthropology of racism: the analysis of systems of inequality based on biological differences. Comprising nine papers and related commentary, \u003ci\u003eAfrican Americans in the South\u003c\/i\u003e examines racism, class stratification, and sexism as they bear on the African American struggle for social justice, equality, and cultural identity in the South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essays fall into three broad categories: economic survival strategies, health and reproductive problems, and religious responses to the larger society. Essays in the first category discuss African-American teen pregnancy and mutual aid societies. The second group focuses on health practices and knowledge among blacks in a Georgia town, African-American midwifery in North Carolina, an AIDS education program in a Tennessee city, and eating habits in rural North Carolina. The essays in the last category emphasize the diversity of the African-American religious experience by focusing on black Pentecostals, Jews, and Mormons in the South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether these writings constitute an important, concerted first engagement of issues crucial to an understanding of the history and social life of the South.","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46893610893463,"sku":"9780820313771","price":3128.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780820313771.webp?v=1770317576","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/african-americans-in-the-south-issues-of-race-class-and-gender-9780820313771","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}