Shorter - Gooden Kumea - Shifting The Double Lives Of Black Women In America - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Shifting explores the many identities Black women must adopt in various spaces to succeed in America. Based on the African American Women's Voices Project Shifting reveals that a large number of Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "white" as they head to work in the morning and " Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back. In commemoration of its twentieth year in print with a new Introduction and updated content throughout Shifting is a much - needed clear and comprehensive portrait of the reality of Black women's lives today.
Title: Shifting The Double Lives Of Black Women In America
Author(s): Shorter - Gooden Kumea
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060090555
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/27/2004