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An analysis of the female African-American experience today explains how black women today are pressured to compromise their true natures in order to be socially acceptable, offering insight into how they survive in the workplace, in families, and in their faiths.
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"Urgent...compelling and educational.a real contribution." -- Publishers Weekly
"Poignant.based on research garnered from the African American Women's Voices Project, the largest study to date of black women." -- Booklist
"Stress is a common theme...the authors found good news...'We're learning that we don't have to lose ourselves.'"--Essence
"Jones and Shorter-Gooden are wise, warm and candid, breaking new ground.... An important and powerful book for us all.--Mary Pipher
"Always moving, at times haunting, and often inspirational, Shifting provides a richly textured look at the lives of Black women."--Bebe Moore Campbell, author of What You Owe Me
"A deeply moving, intimate and important book about the emotional costs for Black women in white America."--Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger
"Searing...as I read Shifting... I wanted to rip out chapters and send them to nearly everyone I know."--Gwen Ifill
"Urgent...compelling and educational...a real contribution."--Publishers Weekly
"Poignant...based on research garnered from the African American Women's Voices Project, the largest study to date of black women."--Booklist
A deeply moving, intimate and important book about the emotional costs for Black women in white America. --Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger"
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"Poignant.based on research garnered from the African American Women's Voices Project, the largest study to date of black women." -- Booklist
"Stress is a common theme...the authors found good news...'We're learning that we don't have to lose ourselves.'"--Essence
"Jones and Shorter-Gooden are wise, warm and candid, breaking new ground.... An important and powerful book for us all.--Mary Pipher
"Always moving, at times haunting, and often inspirational, Shifting provides a richly textured look at the lives of Black women."--Bebe Moore Campbell, author of What You Owe Me
"A deeply moving, intimate and important book about the emotional costs for Black women in white America."--Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger
"Searing...as I read Shifting... I wanted to rip out chapters and send them to nearly everyone I know."--Gwen Ifill
"Urgent...compelling and educational...a real contribution."--Publishers Weekly
"Poignant...based on research garnered from the African American Women's Voices Project, the largest study to date of black women."--Booklist
A deeply moving, intimate and important book about the emotional costs for Black women in white America. --Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger"
Charisse Jones is a national correspondent for USA Today. A former staff writer for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, she has been a commentator for National Public Radio and is a contributing writer for Essence magazine.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0060090545
- ISBN 13 9780060090548
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