The Unchosen Me: Race, Gender, and Identity Among Black College Women, by Rachelle Winkle-Wagner. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2009, 248 pp, $57.00, hardcover.
Much of the research involving identity has focused on comparing African Americans to Caucasian Americans or African American women to Caucasian women. However, the book, The Unchosen Me: Race, Gender, and Identity Among Black College Women by Rachelle Winkle- Wagner, assistant professor of higher education in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, enhances the psychology and sociology literature in exploring and investigating the experience and identity of Black …