Divided Sisters: Bridging the Gap Between Black Women and White Women

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Since the advent of the women's movement, women have often expressed the belief that Black and White women in society have a great many common concerns and are, in fact, natural allies and friends. The fact is that, as adults, relatively few women are close friends with a woman of another racial background. In DIVIDED SISTERS, Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell, the acclaimed co-authors (with Ronald Hall) of The Color Complex, tackle the nature of relationships between Black and White women, and explore how women from different racial backgrounds do, and don't get along. Hard-hitting and filled with first-person accounts and illuminating anecdotes, ultimately hopeful and yet supremely uncompromising in its examination of the way women interact, DIVIDED SISTERS is nothing less than a landmark book that will open readers' eyes to the realities and challenges of bridging what is too frequently an unbreachable cultural divide. Introduction: Chapter 1: History: The Divisions Begin Chapter 2: Childhood: From Schoolgirls to Homegirls Chapter 3: Surface Divisions: Issues of Beauty and Style Chapter 4: Sexual Tensions Chapter 5: Making Friends: Relationships on the Campus, int he Workplace, and Beyond Chapter 6: Social Activism: Shared Agenda and Uneasy Alliances Chapter 7: Relations on the Home Front Chapter 8: Pop Culture and the Media Epilogue: Sisters Beneath the Skin Reference Notes: