ERIC Number: EJ131892
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Publication Date: 1975
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Daddy May Bring Home Some Bread, But He Don't Cut No Ice: The Economic Plight of the Father Figure in Black American Literature
Dance, Daryl C.
Journal of Afro-American Issues, 3, 3&4, 297-308, Sum/F 75
Discusses the ways in which literature reflects how the American economic system conspires to make it impossible for the black man to progress, no matter how he plays the economic game. Notes that the fathers created by black American writers have attempted to deal with their economic plight in numerous ways. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Black Literature, Blacks, Fathers, Literature Reviews, Lower Class, Lower Class Parents, Males, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Poverty, Racism
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