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Children of bondage : the personality development of Negro youth in the urban South
- Author
- Davis, Allison, 1902-1983.
- Title
- Children of bondage : the personality development of Negro youth in the urban South / by Allison Davis and John Dollard, prepared for the American Youth Commission.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : American Council on Education, 1940.
- Description
- xxviii, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- Dollard, John, 1900-1980. American Council on Education. American Youth Commission.
- Notes
- Illustration mounted on cover. Includes index.
- Contents
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- Foreword
- Preface
- Author's note / Allison Davis
- Author's note / John Dollard
- Subject and its setting
- pt. 1. Personality development and status controls
- Mystery of personality
- Lower classes : Frightened Amazon ; Laughing girl ; Nameless boy
- Middle classes : Self-made man ; Creole miss ; Ellen Hill, the winner
- Upper class : Black sheep
- Practice in analysis : case for the reader to try
- pt. II. Class and caste as training
- How it feels to be lower caste
- What is social class?
- Child training and class
- Social class and school learning.
- Kinsey subjects
- Afroamericans. Personality. Psychology.