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

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

Title remainder

living at the intersection of black, female, and feminist in (white) America

Statement of responsibility

Morgan Jerkins

Creator

• trueJerkins, Morgan

Author

• trueJerkins, Morgan

Subject

• trueElectronic books
• trueFeminism
• Nonfiction
• trueAmerican essays -- 21st century
• trueRacism
• Women authors, Black
• truePopular culture
• Blacks -- History

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties, but she has already established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing, she 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? This is a book about black women, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans. Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social, cultural, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white, male-dominated world at large. Whether she’s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color”; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed girl” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory

Cataloging source

MMI

Dewey number

808.84

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN6142

LC item number

.J47 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries