We deserve to heal : Black women on the perils and promises of friendship with White women / edited by Patrice Gopo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gopo, Patrice, 1979-

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Female friendship.

Social integration.

Women, Black--Race identity.

Women, Black.

Women, White--Race identity.

Women, White.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Kentucky University Press of Kentucky 2026

Contents:

Cover

Praise for We Deserve to Heal

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Do You Want to Get Well?

Chapter 1. Turning the Tides of Friendship

Chapter 2. Oluwatomisin's Response: Aggravations

Chapter 3. In Pursuit of a Love That Frees

Chapter 4. Quantrilla's Response: The Nice White Woman

Chapter 5. White Women Are the Worst

Chapter 6. Paula's Response: White Girl, Please!

Chapter 7. Dear White Women in Black Churches

Chapter 8. Patrice's Response: Places to Begin

Chapter 9. Transparency: Observations in Tears and Terror

Chapter 10. Velynn's Response: Silencing Ghosts, Settling into Sisterhood

Chapter 11. Finding My Way

Chapter 12. Kadeisha's Response: A Hairstory of Finding My Way

Chapter 13. The So-Called Life of Belonging: Discovering the Concept of Friendship through a Historical Lens

Chapter 14. Kathryn's Response: In Search of My Tribe

Chapter 15. Seven Stones

Chapter 16. Chichi's Response: Decentering Discomfort in Two Letters

Chapter 17. A Closed Forum: Q & A

Chapter 18. Dorena's Response: A Dance in the Morning Light

Chapter 19. When You Let Go: Reflections on Misplaced Sisterhood, Double Dutch, and Other Reasons to Drop the Rope

Chapter 20. Deidra's Response: Rope Burns

Wonder Beyond Wounds: A Collective Poem

Acknowledgments

Contributors

About the Editor

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

9781985903517

1985903512

9781985903500

1985903504

Publisher Number:

40033074160

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.