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Article: Post-Ghetto fabulous: coming to grips with black women's success.(Book Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- April 1, 2003
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HAVING IT ALL? Black Women and Success by Veronica Chambers Doubleday, $23.95
WHEN IT COMES TO THE NATIONAL discourse, to be a black woman is to be that kid who moves to town the first week of February; you're going to get a fair number of Valentines, but your name will be misspelled and dutifully rendered in the handwriting of your new Classmates' moms. Black women, when not scapegoats--think: single parent homes, juvenile crime, and welfare--are after-thoughts. Black men's problems, we are to believe, are black people's problems.
Yet, without much public notice, black women have been taking care of business, and not primarily via lawsuit and bullhorn. ...