Author 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