Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community

by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Book Overview

This incisive study uses a phenomenological approach in its examination of black families in a white community. It goes beyond the probability statistics of attitude and behavior surveys to let the families speak for themselves about their experiences. Assimilation Blues provides an in-depth look at the realities of being a middle-class black parent, living, working, and raising children in a predominantly white community, through first-hand interviews...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963214624
• ISBN13: 9780963214621
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.