Book Review: Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America

By Deidre M. Anglin. 2006

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Beneath the numbers: A review of gender disparities in undergraduate education across science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines (2016, unknown): “In a recent study of 60 female scientists of color, 100% said they had encountered gender bias [128] while another study on black female scientists found 80% reported encountering racial bias [129].”
Trapped between justified anger and being the strong Black woman: Black college women coping with racial battle fatigue at historically and predominantly White institutions (2018, background): “Others have made similar linkages to respectability politics in historical and contemporary contexts from superwoman to Sisterella (e.g. Hine, 1989; Jones & Shorter-Gooden, 2003; Morgan, 1999; Wallace, 1978).”
Stress and Mental Health (2015, background): “…violence, exploitation, and oppression, and it has been passed intergenerationally through parents’, particularly mothers’, socialization of Black girls (BeauboeufLafontant, 2009; Harris-Lacewell, 2001; Jones & Shorter-Gooden, 2003; Thomas & King, 2007; Townsend, 2008; Wallace, 1990; White, 1985).”
Toward the Development of the Stereotypic Roles for Black Women Scale (2004, background): “African American women are often viewed as promiscuous, loose, immoral, sexually aggressive, and lacking sexual restraint (Bell, 1992; Daniel, 2000; Greene, 1994, 1997; Jones & Shorter-Gooden, 2003).”
“Ain’t I a Woman?” (2016, background): “There is a rich interdisciplinary literature that speaks to the double jeopardy that Black women face in dealing with both racism and sexism (e.g., Beal, 1970; Collins, 1990; hooks, 1981; Jones & Shorter-Gooden, 2003).”
“I Had To Be Strong” (2016, background): “…(i.e., the tendency to appear emotionally unaffected by stressful events) in order for African American women to maintain a façade of strength (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2007; Black & Peacock, 2011; Jones & Shorter-Gooden, 2003; Thomas et al., 2004; Woods-Giscombé, 2010; Woods-Giscombé & Lobel, 2008).”
Gendered Racism, Coping, Identity Centrality, and African American College Women’s Psychological Distress (2016, background): “In addition, although African American college women typically have greater socioeconomic resources than peers who do not attend college, research suggests that higher socioeconomic status women are not immune to the negative psychological effects of oppression (Jones & Shorter-Gooden, 2003).”