Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Charisse Jones

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America

Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Charisse Jones

368 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction feminism race sociology challenging informative reflective fast-paced
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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 com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by alteri...

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