Embracing sisterhood
Subtitle: class, identity, and contemporary Black Women
By: Katrina Bell McDonald.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780742545748; 9780742545755
Subjects: Winfrey, Oprah -- Public opinion; Winfrey, Oprah -- Influence; African American women -- Social conditions; African American women -- Attitudes; African American women -- Race identity; Group identity -- United States; Public opinion -- United States
Other titles: Class, identity, and contemporary Black Women
Description: "In this purported new era of high profile mega successful black women and growing socioeconomic diversity. Embracing Sisterhood seeks to determine where contemporary black women's ideas of black womanhood and sisterhood merge with social class. This book confirms what many of today's African-American women and interested observers have known for some time conceptions and experiences of black womanhood are quite diverse and appear to have grown more so over time. However, the potential for a pervasive and polarizing black "step-sisterhood" is considerably undermined by the passion with which these women cling to the promises of cross class gender ethnic "community" and of group determination Embracing Sisterhood draws its analysis from in depth interviews with eighty eight black women aged eighteen to eighty nine and covers various dimensions of gender ethnic identity and consciousness. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : metaphorically speaking; title: The legacy of Black sisterhood : deep collective roots; title: The contemporary currency of Black sisterhood; title: "Struggle" as a marker of authentic Black womanhood; title: Discord in the sisterhood : classed patterns of sentiment and experience; title: Embracing Oprah Winfrey; title: Conclusion : restimulating the Black sisterhood.