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in The Changing American Family: Sociological And Demographic Perspectives (2019). Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of love, labor of sorrow: Black women, work, and the family, from slavery to the present (Basic Books, 2009). Mintz, Steven; Susan Kellogg (1989). Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. Simon and Schuster.
An American family watching television together in 1958. The 1950s are known as the Golden Age of Television by some people. Sales of TV sets rose tremendously in the 1950s and by 1950 4.4 million families in America had a television set. Americans devoted most of their free time to watching television broadcasts.
The novel Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, published in 1961, is concerned with mid-1950s life and culture. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, though not published until 1963, features a woman's struggle living in 1950s American culture. Agatha Christie was also at a stage where she published at an average rate of one book every year.
In 1954, the Church of Latter-day Saints placed Navajo children in Mormon homes to teach them to become more "white." It's part of a long history of removing children from tribes.
GOBankingRates asked financial experts how to reclaim the middle-class dreams of the 1950s. Realizing the Dream Money management through budgeting, saving, investment and planning are essential to ...
1950s American radio programs (5 C, 287 P) S. Silver Age of Comic Books (7 C, 3 P) 1950s in American sports (15 C, 2 P) 1950s strikes in the United States (5 P) T.
In her response, Harris said “family comes in many forms, and I think that, increasingly, you know, all of us understand that, you know, this is not the 1950s anymore.”
His favoritism toward the slave owners was finally challenged by neoabolitionist historians in the 1950s, most notably Kenneth Stampp. Since the 1960s a large literature has emerged on the social structure of the slave system, especially on such topics as family life, gender roles, resistance to slavery, and demographic trends.