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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present

Jacqueline Jones

An historical study of the roles of Black women examines the weight of racial prejudice and sexual discrimination on the dual responsibilities of Black women as bread winners and guardians of family and community stability.

Race & EthnicityRace & Ethnicity · high confidenceRace & Ethnicity81 signalsLlm Classifier: Race & Ethnicity -> Race & EthnicityOpen Library: African American women -> Race & EthnicityOpen Library: African American families -> Race & EthnicityBlack History & CultureSlavery & EmancipationAfrica & the African Diaspora

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Bancroft PrizeMajor1986WinnerOfficial source
Pulitzer Prize in HistoryMajor1986FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Racial prejudice and sexual discrimination shape Black women's dual responsibilities as breadwinners and as guardians of family and community stability, across slavery to the present.

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    52 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.