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Details, and offers vignettes to illustrate, how patriarchy and
white supremacy have restricted Black women at work, both
historically and currently. Around water coolers and over glasses
of wine, Black women come together and process the ways in which
their labor is taken for granted and their excellence called into
question. Black Women at Work: On Refusal and Recovery makes the
direct connection between these contemporary experiences and the
long legacy of Black labor exploitation. Through the trafficking
and enslavement of Africans, European Americans laid the inhumane
foundation of their present-day wealth and privilege and
established oppressive labor dynamics for workers that persist to
this day. In Black Women at Work, Wendi S. Williams moves the
conversation beyond the stubborn audacity of inequity, focusing
instead on the powerful history and example of Black women’s
labor and refusal practices and on the potent role that choice and
voice can play in dismantling seemingly impenetrable systems of
unfairness. Through the interweaving of personal narratives and
social media reflections, Williams crafts a larger narrative of
recovery and refusal that articulates a liberatory path toward
recovery and reclamation through refusal—a path that will
ultimately help to bring us all closer to freedom. Offers a
common-sense, theoretically based systems analysis of Black women's
experiences in the workplace Articulates reasonable and realistic
approaches to remedying intersectional inequity for Black women
(and others) in the workplace Provides a generalizable framework to
make individual and systemic changes and/or cope within a range of
employment contexts Includes vignettes from dozens of women the
author has counseled or worked with in diversity groups Ties into
contemporary activism, such as #BlackGirlsMagic and
#ListentoBlackWomen
Increasingly, social, cultural, and political discourse is deeming
Black women and girls to be a critical group to engage. We are told
their lives should matter, and yet, there is also overwhelming
evidence that Black women and girls continue to be what Malcolm X
declared, "The most neglected person in America". This critical
volume engages a conversation at the intersection of the fields of
education and psychology among recognized Black women scholars that
contemporizes the discourse about Black women’s and girls’
diversity, their sociocultural contexts, and various approaches to
communal and clinical work with them to support their mental
health, wellness, and thrivance. WE Matter!: Intersectional Anti-
Racist Feminist Interventions with Black Girls and Women is a
significant new contribution to Black Studies, Mental Health, and
Gender Studies, and will be a great resource for academics,
researchers, and advanced students of Sociology, Psychology,
Education, and Politics. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of Women & Therapy.
Increasingly, social, cultural, and political discourse is deeming
Black women and girls to be a critical group to engage. We are told
their lives should matter, and yet, there is also overwhelming
evidence that Black women and girls continue to be what Malcolm X
declared, "The most neglected person in America". This critical
volume engages a conversation at the intersection of the fields of
education and psychology among recognized Black women scholars that
contemporizes the discourse about Black women's and girls'
diversity, their sociocultural contexts, and various approaches to
communal and clinical work with them to support their mental
health, wellness, and thrivance. WE Matter!: Intersectional Anti-
Racist Feminist Interventions with Black Girls and Women is a
significant new contribution to Black Studies, Mental Health, and
Gender Studies, and will be a great resource for academics,
researchers, and advanced students of Sociology, Psychology,
Education, and Politics. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of Women & Therapy.
The position of George Eliot's poetry within Victorian poetry and
within her own canon is crucial for an accurate picture of the
writer, as Wendy S. Williams shows in her in-depth examination of
Eliot's poetry and her role as poetess. Williams argues that even
more clearly than her fiction, Eliot's poetry reveals the
development of her belief in sympathy as a replacement for orthodox
religious views. With knowledge of the Bible and a firm
understanding of society's expectations for female authorship,
Eliot consciously participated in a tradition of women poets who
relied on feminine piety and poetry to help refine society through
compassion and fellow-feeling. Williams examines Eliot's poetry in
relationship to her gender and sexual politics and her shifting
religious beliefs, showing that Eliot's views on gender and
religion informed her adoption of the poetess persona. By taking
into account Eliot's poetess treatment of community and motherhood,
Williams suggests, readers come to view her not only as a writer of
fiction, an intellectual, and a social commentator, but also as a
woman who longed to nurture, participate in, and foster human
relationships.
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