Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity, and Contemporary Black Women

“Embracing Sisterhood utilizes an exhaustive investigation of secondary material in combination with interviews with a diverse group of African American women to explore the impact of a social class schism where images of class discord can mask shared concerns. McDonald’s powerful study is important reading for people interested in how social class can shape attachments and detachments within racial ethnic communities.” ―Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware, author of Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration

“This book is successful in that it is as ‘real’ and accessible as it is rigorous.” ―Audrey Elisa Kerr, Women’s Review of Books

“Embracing Sisterhood is a thought-provoking examination of Black women?s intersecting challenges, tensions, and issues of class in the 21st century. With eloquently simple yet subtlety provocative sophistication, McDonald captures the continuing trials and tribulations for these women in a changing post Civil Rights Era where race is not their only struggle, but part of the nexus of questions and answers associated with gender/ethnic identity consciousness and class….” ―Marlese Durr, Wright State University, author of Race, Work, and Family in the Lives of African Americans

“Embracing Sisterhood is a thought-provoking examination of Black women’s intersecting challenges, tensions, and issues of class in the 21st century. With eloquently simple yet subtlety provocative sophistication, McDonald captures the continuing trials and tribulations for these women in a changing post Civil Rights Era where race is not their only struggle, but part of the nexus of questions and answers associated with gender/ethnic identity consciousness and class.” ―Marlese Durr, Wright State University, author of Race, Work, and Family in the Lives of African Americans