“While writing her first book, Krieger School sociologist Katrina Bell McDonald had in mind a very specific title — a title that name-dropped the book’s inspiration — only to have her publisher’s legal department nix the famous moniker at the last minute. If all had gone according to plan, Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity and Contemporary Black Women (Rowan & Littlefield, August 2006) would have given a titular hug to a very specific icon: Oprah Winfrey.”
“The book’s premise is that the way that nearly all black women — regardless of their income, education or social status — embrace Winfrey is emblematic of the value they place on sisterhood. Winfrey’s humble beginnings also speak to black women’s collective sense of pride for their determination to overcome adversity, McDonald says.”
TheStateOf . . . Black Women. How is it that black women have such intimate bonds, yet sometimes seem so distant from each other? I’d like to know how some of our sistas view their bond with other black women in general.
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