<DIV><B>Stereotypes aren't funny when they follow you everywhere.</B><BR><BR>This is the rallying cry that author Sophia A. Nelson wants all of America to grapple with when it comes to the way we view and treat black women.<BR> <br><I>Black Woman Redefined</I> was inspired in part by what Nelson calls ?open season on accomplished black women,” which reached a tipping point in 2007 when Don Imus referred to black female Rutger's University basketball co-eds as ?nappy-headed hos.” Since then, we've seen First Lady Michelle Obama caricatured on the infamous <I>New Yorker</I> cover, when she was called ?angry” and ?unpatriotic”; the 2009 groundbreaking Yale University Study on professional black women titled, ?Marriage Eludes High-Achieving Black Women”; ABC's ?Why Can't a Successful Black Woman Find a Man?” and the Internet video that went viral, ?Black Marriage Negotiations,” featuring a successful black woman interviewing a nice black man to be her mate in a robotic, controlling, emasculating, Bible-thumping demeanor. More recently, we were subjected to the 2011 Super Bowl commercial that started a national firestorm featuring an ?angry black woman” throwing a soda can at her mate, after first kicking, slapping, and emasculating him.<BR><BR>Nelson says black women are tired of such depictions that portray them as manless, childless, angry, and unfulfilled. Nelson sets out to change this cultural perception, taking readers on a no-holds-barred journey into the hearts and minds of accomplished black women to reveal truths, tribulations, and insights like never before.<BR><BR>She says it is time for a <B>REDEFINITION</B> among black women in America. <br></DIV>