"I Was Going Up for Assistant Manager [at McDonalds], But I Had To Quit Because I Didn't Have a Babysitter and Welfare Wouldn't Pay for One": African-American Women, Crossing Borders.

Weis, Lois; Fine, Michelle; Morton-Christmas, Rukiyaa

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ERIC Number: EJ592392

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1999

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"I Was Going Up for Assistant Manager [at McDonalds], But I Had To Quit Because I Didn't Have a Babysitter and Welfare Wouldn't Pay for One": African-American Women, Crossing Borders.

Weis, Lois; Fine, Michelle; Morton-Christmas, Rukiyaa

Educational Foundations, v13 n2 p5-26 Spr 1999

Examines the stresses and strengths that define daily negotiated life experiences for women who are poor or working-class and African-American in urban America. Interviews with individuals in these communities show that these women see themselves as constantly negotiating borders of home/family/life and, at the same time, constantly carry themselves and their children across them. (SM)

Descriptors: Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Violence, Family Work Relationship, Females, Low Income Groups, Personal Narratives, Poverty, Urban Areas, Urban Education, Welfare Recipients, Working Class

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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