Teaching classics in family studies: E. Franklin Frazier’s The Negro Family in the United States
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Andrea G. Hunter, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This paper (a) reintroduces E. Franklin Frazier's 1939 book, The Negro Family in the United States, to family scholars and graduate students and highlights its importance as a groundbreaking and classic text, (b) provides both an introduction to the major thesis of this monograph and a reading of the text, and (c) discusses the challenges of reading classic works and suggests strategies that can be used to guide graduate students in a critical reading of classic works.
Teaching classics in family studies: E. Franklin Frazier’s The Negro Family in the United States
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- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 2006
- Keywords
- Black families, E. Franklin Frazier, family sociology, graduate education, pedagogy