What we can learn of Resilience from older African-American women: Interviews with women who worked as maids in the deep South

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 410-422

  van Wormer, Katherine ^a   Sudduth, Charletta ^a   Jackson, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Domestic service; Older adults; Resilience; Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957623574     PISSN: 10911359     EISSN: 15403556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10911359.2011.561167     Document Type: Article

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