Historical, Economic, and Political Contexts of Aging in African America

ABSTRACT

This article is an attempt to present some of the historical and political contexts of older women in general and to communicate pieces of the lives of African American older women, in particular. It presents some of the present day distortions as well as a sense of the historical, economic, and political realities of older African American lives, while trying to limit the use of the usual comparison approach to this topic.

KEYWORDS:

• African American women
• aging women
• historical contexts of aging women
• aging African American women