Considers myth of black woman as superwoman, contending instead that black woman is ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances. Asserts that persistence of belief that whatever else she is, woman is homemaker and caregiver to children, is likely to keep myth of black woman as superwoman alive with all its deleterious effects. (NB)

Examines the black female's role in U.S. society, particularly with regard to working outside the home, and argues that one cannot understand what African American women are today without having a historical perspective for what their ancestors and their ancestors' roles, functions, and responsibilities were. An Afrocentric perspective is…

Black economists feel even more isolation and frustration than many African American academics and PhDs, because they continually confront the contradictions between economic theory and blacks' daily experience. The proportion of African Americans with PhDs in economics is very low relative to the undergraduates who study economics or have degrees…