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Shifting

Name: Shifting
Brand: Harper Perennial
SKU: 9780063414204-HCUSDTR
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The Double Lives of Black Women in America

Ms. Charisse Jones (Author) • Kumea Shorter-Gooden (Author) ... more

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400 pages • 13.49 x 20.32 x 2.29 cm

Approx. weight: 0.29 kg

Publication date: 28 Jan,2025

Barcode/ ISBN: 9780063414204 • Harper Perennial

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By: Ms. Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden

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 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 throughout Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of Black women's lives today.

Based on the African American Women’s Voices project, a study with four hundred women across the United States that represents a diverse range of black women, Shifting reveals the subtle pressure black women feel to “shift” their real selves as a coping mechanism to accommodate and placate the many groups that comprise American society. From one interaction to the next, black women change their behavior both internally and externally--shifting “white,” then shifting “black” again, shifting “corporate,” shifting “cool”--a survival skill that often diminishes the joys of living an authentic life.

Breaking important new ground by examining the inner lives of black women and illuminating the challenges they face in developing strong, confident selves, Shifting examines how black women, in ways that differ from other groups, contend with money, the workplace, language, black men, beauty, religion and spirituality. Shifting is a clear and comprehensive portrait of the reality of African-American women’s lives today.