Being a black woman of Nelson's generation, I found this book to be a surprising validation. It confirmed my own belief that we (black women) need to spend more time talking about our life in America. Nelson's anger/rage was a little raw and exposed at times, but it needed to be said just the way it was said. However, a little more structure and objective statistics to support her conjectures would have taken some of the emotion out and added more substance. Every professional black woman in the country should read this book