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...today’s world, which sets up enough roadblocks for women and minorities independently, focusing on how successful professional women of color have overcome these double barriers is a phenomenon worth closer scrutiny. For black women, it seems that in a hidden and unprofessed way, we often choose being ‘black’ over being ‘women’; to choose otherwise would be some sort of tacit betrayal of our race. We therefore find ourselves denying the ways in which our identities both as minorities and as women are both deeply important...
...Crenshaw of Columbia Law School writes, “The consequences of this multiple marginality are fairly predictable—there is simply silence of and about black women.” This deafening silence leads not only to a dearth of information on the experience of women of color as a whole, but also minimizes the unique identity of women of color as individuals...
However, the interplay of these gender advancements with racism and race politics is a far better kept secret. The advancement of women of color within the American workplace and beyond is not a topic of widespread political interest. Professionally, women of color have struggled to surmount impediments to tenure and upward mobility, faced difficulties in creating minority women-owned businesses and entrepreneurial ventures and confronted the problem of being historically cut off from the social networks that enable career expansion and promotion. The specter of sexual assault and rape within the minority community and lack of knowledge about, and treatment...
Edwards’ visit represented a trial run of sorts for the MSNBC crew and the Dems, who both spent yesterday afternoon dealing with last-minute logistics ranging from security, to the placement of signs, to the color of the mugs on the Hardball...
...talks. "We hold the same ideals as Body Shop, but we've done it without all the plastic bottles," he says of Lush's ethics as well as its emphasis on pared-down packaging. The company's catalog, which promotes bars of solid shampoo and bare blocks of deodorant, color-codes ingredients to distinguish the organic from the merely natural. It also tags some 75% of its products with a "green blob" indicating "suitable for vegans...