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...Donna James felt triumphant. She had recently been promoted to senior vice president at Nationwide, an insurance and financial-services company in Columbus, Ohio, where she had started years ago as an accountant. But then a white male colleague burst her bubble. "You know, Donna," he said, "the jury is still out on whether you are where you are because you have talent or because you are female and black." James was stunned into silence, not because she had never beheld such a stereotype in the workplace but because no one had ever voiced it to her face. Her colleague...
Sometimes the stigma is what's most dreaded. For many years, Donna James, the Nationwide executive, hid from her colleagues and bosses that her son was born when she was only 17. "I didn't bring them into that part of my world for fear I would be harshly judged," she says. "Knowing the cultural biases about marriage, about being a single mom and being black and a teen parent, I never wanted to have stereotypical views hold me back...
...that sense of uncanny terror—and most all the creepy feeling that the screen is acting out repressed fears and desires you didn’t know you had. You could take everyone’s favorite poststructuralist gender theoretician, Judith Butler, and her old sparring partner, Donna Haraway, to most 1970s horror films and watch them battle it out over a cappuccino after the movie. Nowadays, they’d probably just yawn endlessly like I do at the horror-junk Hollywood churns out. A hypothetical conversation after “Demon Seed” could...
According to Sylvia Link, a Denver-based estate liquidator with 30 years' experience, the average estate has marketable paper items worth at least $500. (Estate liquidators typically charge 25% to 30% of the sale.) Consider the items that sisters Donna DeRosato, 52, and Carol Pogue, 54, found in their mother's attic in Plymouth Meeting, Pa.: the stubs of two sets of Beatles concert tickets (1965 and 1966), a concert handbill (Rolling Stones, 1968) and some Beatles fan books and figurines. The sisters gave them all to a local eBay consignment shop, and when the online auction was over, they...
...Don’t Cha” may be tearing up the Billboard charts, but nothing is colder than their cover of Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff...