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Title: Alternative Unions and the Independent Life Stage
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-205-57877-1
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Abstract: Veronica is a white woman, born in the 1950s, and raised in an all-white staunchly conservative town fifty miles outside of New York City. Veronica had so little exposure to blacks that she can remember very distinctly the black nurse who came to take care of her mother. I think I was probably about seven, and I remember distinctly, in fact we laugh about it now, being in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet, and my dad was shaving. And I looked up at him and I asked him if the nurse had a black bottom [laughs] . . . Karl is a black man, born in the early 1950s and raised in inner-city Detroit. Karl’s father was a janitor, and Karl’s mother was a housekeeper, occupations that were dominated by blacks in those days. Karl’s parents found an integrated public school for Karl and his siblings to attend—the school started out as mostly white, but ended up being mostly black. After high school Karl joined the Air Force, and, the Air Force helped pay for his college education. After his time in the armed forces was over, in the late 1970s Karl became a restaurant manager . . .
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Authors: Rosenfeld, Michael, J
Editors: Skolnick, Arlene, S; Skolnick, Jerome, H
Pages: 164-171
Volume Title: Family in Transition
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
Publisher Location: Boston, MA
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Edition: 15
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity
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