Why We Hate Black Women

Published: April 8, 2010, 2 a.m.

b'Why We Hate Black Women is a book that takes a critical look at the historical and contemporary lives of Black women in order to answer one question: Why are so many black women abused, abandoned, betrayed, devalued and hated by both their white and black counterparts? This quest for truth opens up a cultural Pandora\\u2019s Box of issues that date back over 400 years.\\n\\nWhether we\\u2019re discussing corporate women, college women, church women or economically challenged women, their stories are the same. Whether they\\u2019ve reached the heights of an Oprah Winfrey or have struggled to make ends meet, there is one chord that binds them all together \\u2013 the stigma of what it means to be black and female in America.'