Feel Free Read Black Women, Corporate Culture, & Stereotypes PDF
The reality of the intersectionality of being both black and female within the traditional workspace is a complexity that Westernized corporations and institutions turn a blind eye to. This leaves the American black woman in particular, alone in her struggle to devise a consistently malleable work-around in order to sustain her occupational career, balance her sanity, and garner respect amongst those who have no cultural understanding of her background. The sheer stress of maintaining the duplicity of existing in a dominant (white) corporate culture versus the consciousness of a black reality is stressed alongside the dichotomy of existing in a male dominated world while being subjugated as a female. This lends the black woman vulnerable, to say the least. Additionally, once you begin to peel back the layer of historical competition in inequality amongst black and white womanhood, one can see more clearly how excluded the black woman has been in a socio-political light. These juxtaposed realities continue to stand on the backs of stereotypes rooted within a mangled history written to protect white male and female shame in reference to their maltreatment and exploitation of the black woman. Because the history is written and presented to protect this white shame, the humanity of the black woman is encumbered by said stereotypes, particularly within confounds of traditional occupational success for black women. Conversely enough, this same mistreatment has not deterred many black women, but has led them to create their own spaces. Currently, black women are manifesting and thriving in the business atmosphere as "unconventional" entrepreneurs—independent of traditional corporate America and strong-held stereotypes.
