Fighting to Be Seen: A Civil Rights Baby Reflects on Life in Post-Integration America

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Race and Gender Matter: White Women, Again, Vote for Patriarchy

 

BOULDER, CO.  –  For the second time in eight years, White women chose to uphold White patriarchy. Race and gender divides aren’t new. The sting of their impact, however, intensifies when one realizes how long they’ve been in place. The impacts of civil rights policy, and integration, are among the important subjects explored in Fighting to Be Seen: A Civil Rights Baby Reflects on Life in Post-Integration America by media scholar Dr. Jennifer E. Mabry.

 

Fighting To Be Seen is a coming-of-age memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, about how Black identity is neither static nor easily defined. It is about the complexity of lived experiences of Black Americans in a world that views American identity as “White.” The book is ripe with themes threading issues of race, culture, and workplace inequality, and the inescapable political land mines that Black women who aspire to create or maintain a middle class lifestyle continue to face; and about one Black woman’s struggle to make peace with her identity and the effects of growing up middle class in an all-White community in the Rocky Mountains at the height of integration.

 

Advanced Praise

“Jennifer Mabry is a fresh and distinctive voice for a post-civil rights ‘Joshua Generation’ of African American women.  In Fighting to Be Seen, Dr. Mabry offers both a personal story and a new and important perspective on race, class, and the complexities of identity. Hers is a voice that deserves to be heard.”

— Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., civil rights legend, attorney, and author of Vernon Can Read!

     A memoir and Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out

 

 

“Fighting To Be Seen is a compelling, soul-searching, memoir of one woman’s journey toward her understanding of an identity rooted in two cultural worlds. Jennifer Mabry manages to traverse life events that are often painful by learning from her experiences and embracing the results. This should be required reading to help others navigate in this global society.”

— Carlotta Walls Lanier, Member of the Little Rock Nine, Congressional Gold Medal of

                        Honor recipient and author of A Mighty Long Way

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Jennifer E. Mabry has applied her expertise to projects in film, television, radio, and podcasting. She is a former assistant professor of media studies at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in New York. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, AARP The Magazine, USA TODAY, and NPR.

 

 

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