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200 10$aBehind the mask of the strong black woman$b[electronic resource] $evoice and the embodiment of a costly performance /$fTamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
210   $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$dc2009
215   $a1 online resource (195 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aA half-told tale of black womanhood -- More than "the historical, the monolithic me" : deconstructing strong black womanhood -- Living the lies : embodying "good" womanhood -- Keeping up appearances : the performance of strength -- Lies make us sick : embodied distress among strong black women -- Coming to voice : transcending strength -- Epilogue : mules no more, just "levelly human" : a societal challenge.
330   $aThe defining quality of Black womanhood is strength, states Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant in Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman. But, she argues, the idea of strength undermines its real function: to defend and maintain a stratified social order by obscuring Black women's experiences of suffering, acts of desperation, and anger. This provocative book lays bare the common perception that strength is an exemplary or defining quality of "authentic" Black womanhood.The author, a noted sociologist, interviews 58 Black women about being strong and proud, to illustrate their "perform
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