Black Women are often saddled with an immense amount of responsibility. Black Men are taught to be strong, educated, innovative, and breadwinners. Black Women are taught they have to work twice as hard to get half as much as everyone else, simply because they are Black Women. Through the generations, Black Women have been taught to be the backbone of their families. They take care of the household; mold, shape and educate their children; love, support, and lift up their men / partners; and be strong through all adversity. The concept of money management and financial literacy is overlooked or forgotten altogether. The authors in this book share their life's experiences in learning about the importance of the priority of money.
The Hidden Psychological Effects of Money of Black Women is a collection of experiences by a group of Black women, who have learned to have a strong relationship with money. Learning to have a friendship with money, and understanding how money really works is magical. Knowing how the relationship will help anyone manage their finances is even better. It is not enough just to put a beautiful spreadsheet together that spells out individual financial responsibilities, it the realization of what the spreadsheet means. Life is wonderful when you are able to find your Financial Voice. You learn to teach others to do what you know.
Becoming a Black Woman Millionaire is a revolutionary act. It flies in the face of history. It's telling history to kiss your Black A$$. Look, sis, do I have permission to tell the truth about why you are not a black woman millionaire-yet? Can I just talk to you, sister to sister? No pretense, no political correctness, just real and raw? (This is going to sound sooooo bad...) I can tell you why your business hasn't bloomed. Why you stay at a job that is beneath you. Why no matter how hard you work or how many degrees you get, you live paycheck to paycheck... I can tell you the real reason you lie awake at night tired, stressed, and sleepless, because no matter how much you slave at your business or at that job or in that cubicle, you never feel like you are enough or that you make enough... Do you want to know the truth about why you make big moves and big money #iseeyou #makeyourpapergirl but you are "cash-flow poor"-regardless of your high net-worth tax bracket? Then this is the book, the answer, and the salve for hurts you might not even know you're carrying that directly affect your money. From the streets of Baltimore, to Stanford Ph.D. to (multiple) Black Woman Millionaire, Dr. Venus takes you by the hand and walks you through the spiritual landmine of our "cultural consciousness" that show up in your money so you can defy your impossible to become a 7-Figure sister. This daring and ruthlessly compassionate book sheds an unapologetic light on the impact Slavery has had on Black Women's sense of self in terms of money. Mixing intimate personal stories, searing truth, and emotionally healing action items to start immediately healing money wounds, this book is a must-have for sisters who know they have a destiny to fulfill. Part memoir, part personal-transformation, and part business development, The Black Woman Millionaire serves as a street-smart salve for Black Women to heal their brokenness, so they don't have to spend their lives broke-regardless of income level. Edgy, instructional, and inspirational, this book will teach you how to emancipate yourself-emotionally, spiritually, and financially-so that you alter the financial future of your bloodline.
Are you resentful and tired of being the designated Strong Black Woman in your life? The brown woman built outta brick? Tired of being the anchor, shoulder, backbone, psychologist, nurse, chef, and problem-solver for everyone in your life, all the time, every day, without rest and appreciation? If you answered yes to these questions, then you need Unmasking The Strong Black Woman in your life...like yesterday. Part self-help, part memoir, and part personal finance column, Kara "The Frugal Feminista" Stevens gives you the tips and tools and all the information and inspiration you need to rid yourself of the Superwoman cape, boots, and headband for good so you can establish and embrace happiness, wealth, healthy relationships, and abundance right now. This book is relatable, helpful, and transformative. It cuts through all of the high-falutin' financial and feminist rhetoric out there to give you a clear action plan and path toward fulfillment. Reading this book is like giving yourself a second chance at the life that you always wanted.
** WINNER of the the 2023 Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award** Through an intersectional and inclusive lens, this book provides mental health professionals with a detailed overview of the mental health issues that Black women face as well as the best approach to culturally competent psychological practice with Black women. This text details mental health needs and treatment interventions for Black women. It provides a historical context of how the lived experiences of Black women contribute to mental wellness, identifies effective psychological practices in working with Black women, and challenges readers to advance their cultural competence while providing culturally affirming care to Black women. Additionally, this text is inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity diversity, and it honors the diversity within Black women's identities, relationships, roles, and families. Written by an expert team of Black women clinicians, researchers, and medical professionals, A Handbook on Counseling African American Women: Psychological Symptoms, Treatments, and Case Studies addresses current sociopolitical events as well as historical trauma as it prepares readers to meet the needs of the Black women they serve.
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
The tenth-anniversary edition of the book that changed lives in profound ways, now with a new foreword and afterword. In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller. Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life. The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.
Using a race, gender, and social-class context, this volume challenges the traditional notions of mental health and mental illness as they apply to African American women. The authors show that African American women are at increased risk for psychological distress because of factors that disproportionately affect them, including lower incomes, greater poverty and unemployment, unmarried motherhood, racism, and poor physical health.
719 entries to books and pamphlets, chapters, journal articles, theses, and dissertations, most published since the 1970s. Arranged according to form of literature.
Exploring postapocalypticism in the Black literary and cultural tradition, this book extends the scholarly conversation on Afro-futurist canon formation through an examination of futuristic imaginaries in representative twentieth and twenty-first century works of literature and expressive culture by Black women in an African diasporic setting. The author demonstrates the implications of Afro-futurist literary criticism for Black Atlantic literary and critical theory, investigating issues of hybridity, transcending boundaries, temporality and historical recuperation. Covering writers including Octavia Butler, Edwidge Danticat, Nalo Hopkinson, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward and Beyoncé, this book examines the ways Black women artists attempt to recover a raced and gendered heritage, and how they explore an evolving social order that is both connected to and distinct from the past.
