ShiftingAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Tuesday 27 July 2004
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Commemorating its 2oth year in print with a new Introduction and updated content, 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 Blackwomen 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 throughoutShifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality ofBlack women's lives today.
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