The Multitextured Lives of Women of Color

American Journal of Community Psychology - Tập 25 - Trang 733-743 - 1997
Meg A. Bond1
1University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Tóm tắt

In this commentary, I suggest that our work with women of color should be held together by three primary threads: (a) appreciation for history as we decipher and interpret the adaptive strategies of women of color; (b) recognition of the intersections of race, gender, and class as central to our work; and (c) self-critical examination of the meanings we attach to “difference.” The papers in the current special issue provide good examples regarding the importance of each thread. I argue that attention to these three themes should help us to keep our focus on contextually driven questions and to move forward our appreciation for the lives of women of color.

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American Journal of Community Psychology

Tập 25

733-743

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