This will be my undoing

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

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Morgan Jerkins: This will be my undoing (2018)

258 pages

English language

Published Feb. 17, 2018

ISBN:
978-0-06-266615-4
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OCLC Number:
1020288153

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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.

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Subjects

  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays
  • Economic conditions
  • African American women
  • Feminists
  • Social conditions
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
  • African Americans
  • Women

Places

  • United States