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Shifting

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Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American 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.



With deeply moving interviews, poignantly revealed on each page, Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of African American women's lives today.
Author Kumea Shorter-Gooden, PhD, Charisse Jones
Narrator Zoleka Vundla
Duration 12 hours and 1 minutes
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ISBN 9781666175523
Format Audiobook
Publisher Tantor Media, Inc
Genre Ethnic studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Social discrimination and equal treatment
Availability US

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