This Will Be My Undoing - Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in White

In the spirit of Roxane Gay''s Bad Feminist , This Will Be My Undoing 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 the white, male-dominated world at large. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Morgan Jerkins
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780062666154
• ISBN: 978-0-06-266615-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Biography: general, Memoirs, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, The Americas, Society and culture: general, Feminism and feminist theory, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: MEMOIR AMERICAN VOICES, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN HISTORY & SOCIETY, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Essays, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: WOMEN'S STUDIES, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: GENDER, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, First Year Experience / American History & Society, First Year Experience / Gender, First Year Experience / Memoir American Voices, African American Studies / Memoir & Biography, African American Studies / Women's Studies