And in her 2003 book,
Having It All": Black Women and Success, the writer cuts through racial stereotypes in a celebration and examination of the new freedoms and achievements of black women, another topic with which Chambers has direct experience.
Growing Up in Two Worlds
Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s, Chambers experienced economic difficulties as her mother, a secretary who had emigrated from Panama, tried to raise Chambers and her brother. Chambers's parents were divorced. Her father was not supportive of his children; during one period when Chambers, after fighting with her mother, fled to her father's apartment, she suffered not only from her father's indifference but also from an abusive stepmother. At the age of sixteen, however, Chambers entered a new life when she enrolled in Simon's Rock College, in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, on a scholarship. Far more than just another successful undergraduate, she also edited the campus literary magazine and established a lecture series on campus.
By age eighteen Chambers was working for national magazines and, as she told a Women's Link interviewer, "trying to pitch ideas night and day." The fast-paced lifestyle she established for herself was a rewarding one, she assured the contributor for Women's Link, and prevented her from being blocked by the normal fears she might otherwise have felt.
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