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The Work and Retirement Experiences of Aging Black Americans
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This chapter focuses on the life-course work experiences of Black Americans, and how these experiences influence well-being in later, normative periods and during processes of retirement (Jackson & Gibson, 1985). The focus on Black adults as they transition into retirement is important for several reasons. First, it is consistent with life-course theorizing (see, for example, Baltes, 1987; Carstensen, 1993; Freund & Baltes, 1998) that continuity exits between preand postretirement (Hayward, Friedman, & Chen, 1998; Jackson & Gibson, 1985; Kim & Moen, 2002; Quick & Moen, 1998). In general, the number of individuals reaching retirement age and living well beyond that …
