This will be my undoing living at the intersection of black, female, and feminist in (white) America

In her collection of linked essays, Jerkins takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to "be"--To live as, to exist as - a black woman today? Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist mov...

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Main Author: Jerkins, Morgan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Perennial, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Monkey like you
  • How to be docile
  • The stranger at the carnival
  • A hunger for men's eyes
  • A lotus for Michelle
  • Black girl magic
  • Human, not black
  • Who will write us?
  • How to survive: a manifesto on paranoia and peace
  • A black girl like me.