Feminism and Diversity

In Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

http://www.amazon.com/Sister-Citizen-Shame-Stereotypes-America/dp/0300165412

Yes - it's true. I see where a man up thread responded that has been on the bar scene for a really really long time and has dated black and white women has responded no.


Dating vs. Being . . . Only those who are can understand. I would say my husband and my mother 'get it'. . . but I came from a white woman and I'm married to a white man.

Though I am bi-racial or rather multi-racial (black, european, native) - I identify for all intents and purposes as black.

And in that experience of a black woman in America - yes . . . definitely the 'stereotypes' exist in the media. It then is extended to the psyche of my fellow Americans, though it is a 'harmless bias'. I.E. They can't help it anymore than they can help seeing Red, White and Blue and thinking American Flag.

To op - read that book. It's why we are dismissed as 'Angry' because there are many of us that think that silly little movie about 'black maids' that supposedly 'solved the racial divide question in America - is indeed silly. And no where does represent the Black Female American experience as a whole. Though - folks would like to think it does. Read Sister Citizen - change the dialogue within and have the answer to your question!