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Social History
Social history is a branch of history that includes history of ordinary people and their way of life
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Dinner is the most like jazz of all the meals, in that jazz is part form and part improvisation. You decide what you’re going to have, and then while you’re preparing it – because it’s the end of the day and you have the time – you have the room to consider things about it, to change things about it. You make it something new. ‘I think I’ll add a little chili powder.’”
~ Seth Asa, age 37
Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012
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Black men had fewer opportunities to become wealthy and were specifically encourages, often by the US government, to look to marriage, rather than wealth, as a source of social status. The government hoped that by linking social status to black men's role as husbands and providers it could minimize its own economic responsibility for the newly free African Americans - especially for black women and children.
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― You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
― You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
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