Post-Ghetto fabulous: coming to grips with black women's success.(Book Review)

From: The Washington Monthly | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

HAVING IT ALL? Black Women and Success by Veronica Chambers Doubleday, $23.95

WHEN IT COMES TO THE NATIONAL discourse, to be a black woman is to be that kid who moves to town the first week of February; you're going to get a fair number of Valentines, but your name will be misspelled and dutifully rendered in the handwriting of your new Classmates' moms. Black women, when not scapegoats--think: single parent homes, juvenile crime, and welfare--are after-thoughts. Black men's problems, we are to believe, are black people's problems.

Yet, without much public notice, black ...

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