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Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America

Jones, Charisse
Shorter-Gooden, Kumea

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 0063414201
ISBN13: 9780063414204
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Jan 28 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

Commemorating its 20th anniversary 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 Black women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender discrimination. Black women shift by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance, a set of coping mechanisms explored in detail within these pages. 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 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 experiences with bias today.

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