Over the semester, the students
utilized the conceptual framework put forth in Bell and Nkomo's book Our
Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional
Identity (2001:16-18) as the foundation for understanding the
both the similarities and differences experiences by white and black
women at various socio-economic statuses. Their final paper drew upon
this framework to examine the life of a particular woman. Listed below
are the women whose lives the students examines and applied the conceptual
framework.
