Children of bondage : the personality development of Negro youth in the urban South
Against a background of material obtained from systematic interviews of 200 African American adolescents in New Orleans and Natchez, an attempt is made to describe the development of personalities and the processes of socialization of 8 selected adolescents representing various social classes. The individual case histories are given in detail and discussed to show the effects of caste and class in the formation of the personality and in the development of behavior patterns, social life, and emotional attitudes. The last 4 chapters constitute a general presentation of material to portray the emotional significance of lower caste status, the meaningfulness of social class, and the problems of child training and of education in relationship to social class. (Slightly adapted from abstract)
Print Book, English, 1940
American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., 1940