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Pursuing Upward Mobility: African American Professional Women Reflect on Their Journey

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bmullins{at}memphis.edu.

	Abstract

A study was conducted to investigate how the interaction of race, gender, and class impacted lives of African American women and strategies they used to overcome these three barriers. Six African American women from various socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds holding supervisory positions were interviewed. The findings did not support the expected interactive effects of race, gender, and class as an impediment to upward mobility. All six participants cited gender as the major obstacle to their progress.

First published on November 25, 2008
Journal of Black Studies 2008, doi:10.1177/0021934708325459


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