The Things about Normalizing: Black Women, Resilience, and Superpowers.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- HUGHES, ROBIN
- Source
- Diverse: Issues in Higher Education; 9/1/2022, Vol. 39 Issue 10, p14-15, 2p
- Subject
- Psychological resilience
African American women
Mental health
Racism
Sexism
- Language
- ISSN
- 15575411
The article reports on advantages that resilience can offer to African American women. It mentions resilience is often a response to some ism, racism, sexism, or perpetual racial trauma for African American women. It also mentions African American woman pays little attention to the actual insurmountable efforts taken to live and exist in such a reality.