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Teaching the Classics in Family Studies: E. Franklin Frazier's The Negro Family in the United States
Author(s) -
Hunter Andrea G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2006.00358.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , sociology , classics , graduate students , pedagogy , history , political science , law
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.