April 11, 2003
Mind Work: How a Ph.D. Affects Black Women
Education has always played a big role in my family. My mother certainly inspired and encouraged us to achieve, and most of us did relatively well in school. "Get something in your head," my mother used to say. "They can't take that away from you." It took a couple of decades before I realized that my mother was supporting a moneymaking tradition, not an intellectual one. She, like so many of her peers, believed in education primarily as a key to upward financial mobility, not upward
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