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Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman Paperback - 1995
by Ladner, Joyce A
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- Title Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman
- Author Ladner, Joyce A
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 306
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date 1995-08-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5D400000BAKO_ns
- ISBN 9780803279568 / 0803279566
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.34 x 0.78 in (20.22 x 13.56 x 1.98 cm)
- Reading level 1330
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects African American women, African American families
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95022989
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.488
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From the rear cover
Tomorrow's Tomorrow is a pioneering sociological study of black girls growing up in the city. The author, in a substantial new introduction, considers what has changed and what has remained constant for them since the book was first published in 1971. Joyce A. Ladner spent four years interviewing, observing, and socializing with more than a hundred girls living in the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. She was challenged by preconceived academic ideas and labels and by her own past as a black child in rural Mississippi. Rejecting the white middle-class perspective of "deviant" behavior, she examined the expectations and aspirations of these representative black girls and their feelings about parents and boyfriends, marriage, pregnancy, and child rearing. Ladner asked what life was like in the urban black community for the "average" girl, how she defined her roles and behaviors, and where she found her role models. She was interested in any significant disparity between aspirations and the resources to achieve them. To what extent did the black teenager share the world of her white peers? If the questions were searching, the conclusions were provocative. According to Ladner, "The total misrepresentation of the Black community and the various myths which surround it can be seen in microcosm in the Black female adolescent".