Shifting

The Double Lives of Black Women in America

Author: Charisse Jones
Secondary Author: Kumea Shorter-Gooden
ISBN: 9780060090548

Do you ever feel that you have to leave your true self at the door in order to placate White colleagues? Do you downplay your abilities for fear of outshining Black men? Do you speak one way in the office, another way to your girlfriends? Is it sometimes a struggle to feel good about how you look -- your skin color, your hair, your body size and shape?In this arresting and groundbreaking work, authors Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Ph.D., articulate with deep understanding what it is really like to be Black and female in America today.Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, an interview and questionnaire study with four hundred women across the United States and from many walks of life, Shifting reveals that a large number of Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves in order to fit in to American society. From one moment to the next, they report changing inwardly and outwardly -- Shifting "White," then Shifting "Black" again, Shifting "corporate

Publisher: HarperCollins
Publish Date: 2003-09-02

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: African-American/Black Studies)