Tina Sacks & Dawn Marie Dow
"Cultural Capital, Systemic Exclusion and Bias in the Lives of Black Middle-Class Women"
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society and Center for Research on Social Change
April 2, 2019

“At this April 2 event at UC Berkeley, Dawn Dow and Tina Sacks discuss their new books on African American women. Dow’s book, Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood (UC Press 2019), examines the complex lives of the African American middle class—in particular, black mothers and the strategies they use to raise their children to maintain class status while simultaneously defining and protecting their children’s “authentically black” identities.”