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Article: Scoping the realities of black women's lives: a team examines the effects of shifting roles to adjust for race and gender.(the writing life)
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- November 1, 2003
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With this issue, Black Issues Book Review introduces THE WRITING LIFE, a department for authors, editors, writers and others engaged in producing the written word. For this premiere, we asked Charisse Jones, a New York correspondent for USA Today and coauthor of Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America (HarperCollins, September 2003, $25.95, ISBN 0-060-09054-4), to share the experience of preparing her first book, an inventive nonfiction work based on original research conducted with Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Ph.D.
From a literary standpoint, it will be my firstborn. Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America speaks of the masks we black women ...