Through the theoretical application of intersectionality, this study analyzes fifteen life history interviews with adult Black women. By asking Black women, as members of simultaneously marginalized racial and gender groups, to reflect on their life experiences with regard to race, this study attempts to interrogate the validity of notions of a currently colorblind United States. Further, the study investigates the intersection of race and gender in Black women's lives by exploring the unique nature of their experiences in contemporary "post-racial" America. Overall, the findings demonstrate that despite societal subscription to notions of "post-racialism" and colorblindness, the experience of living as a woman of color in a male- and white- dominated nation serves as a contradiction to the rhetoric of a currently-existing gender- and race-neutral society.
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