cultural perpetuate well-meaning perspectives

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Families, History and Social Change Life Course & Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Tamara K Hareven, Barbara Trepagnier

Westview Press, 1999

One of the prevailing myths about the American family is that there once existed a harmonious family with three generations living together, and that this "ideal" family broke down under the impact of urbanization and industrialization. The essays in Families, History, and Social Change challenge this myth and provide dramatic revisions of simplistic notions about change in the American family. In these interdisciplinary essays that are deeply ...

Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide

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Barbara Trepagnier

Paradigm Publishers, 2007

silent rcism: how well meaning white people perpetuate the racial devide
Written by a person who seem to have spent some time studying the subject. She identifies the major issues blocking most people from understanding their internalized feeling about people of color. Although she writes mostly about the relationships between Whites and Blacks, she does state the other people's of color are affected in a like manner. I do wish to point out that the relationship ...