Publication

2018 - Harper Perennial, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

64,500 words, Guess

Page Count

258 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780062666154
  • ISBN-100062666150
  • Library of Congress Control Number17327087
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018303771
  • OCLC Control Number1020288153
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC814.6
  • LCCCT
  • LCCPS3610
and 2 more
  • LCCPS3610.E693 A6 2018
  • LCCE185.86 .J47 2018

Alternate Titles

  • Essays. Selections.

Description

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 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. Jerkins exposes 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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • This will be my undoingHarper Perennial2018

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