Download or read book Double Burden written by Yanick St. Jean and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from conventional studies of black women, which characterize them as domineering matriarchs, prostitutes and welfare queens, this text uses the concept of a "collective memory" to show how black women cope with and interpret lives often pervaded with racial barriers not of their making.