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DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: "The Strong Black Woman" with author, Marita Golden\n\nNovember 
 16 @ 4 - 5 PM PT (7 PM - 8 PM ET)\n\nMore Info & RSVP: 
 https://ips-dc.org/events/book-talk-the-strong-black-woman-with-marita-golden/\n\n\nJoin 
 the Institute for Policy Studies as we host Marita Golden in conversation 
 with IPS Director Tope Folarin, about Golden's new book “The Strong Black 
 Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black 
 Women”. \n\nFor generations, in response to systemic racism, Black women 
 and African American culture created the persona of the Strong Black Woman, 
 a woman who, motivated by service and sacrifice, handles, manages, and 
 overcomes any problem, any obstacle. The syndrome calls on Black women to 
 be the problem-solvers and chief caretakers for everyone in their lives. 
 Never buckling, never feeling vulnerable, and never bothering with their 
 pain.\n\nGolden’s book elucidates how being a Black woman in America is 
 to know that you cannot protect your children or guarantee their safety, 
 that your value is consistently questioned, and that even being “twice as 
 good” is often not good enough. Consequently, Black women 
 disproportionately experience anxiety and depression. Studies now 
 conclusively connect racism and mental health―and physical 
 health.\n\nAlso joining the discussion is special guest Dr. Seanna Leath, 
 an assistant professor at the University of Virginia in the Psychology 
 Department who runs the FHIRE Lab. She uses education and psychology to 
 understand the holistic development of Black girls and women within their 
 families, schools, and communities. Specifically, her work focuses on how 
 individual factors (e.g., race and gender identity beliefs) and contextual 
 factors (e.g., friendship groups and community support) promote 
 wellbeing.\n\n\nABOUT: Marita Golden\n\nMarita Golden is the author of 19 
 works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Wide 
 Circumference of Love, and A Woman’s Place and the memoirs Saving Our 
 Sons Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World and Don’t Play in the 
 Sun One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex. She is co-founder and 
 President Emerita of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/11/04/18846117.php
SUMMARY:"The Strong Black Woman": Book Talk with Author, Marita Golden
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/11/04/18846117.php
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