When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost

Book Author

Joan Morgan

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In this fresh, funky, and irreverent book, a new voice of the post-Civil Rights, post-feminist, post-soul generation has emerged in Joan Morgan: a groundbreaking and unflinching author who probes the complex issues facing African-American women today.
*When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost* is a decidedly intimate look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up the tab; where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black women, who long for marriage, that traditional nuclear families are a reality for less than 40 percent of the African-American population; and where black women are forced to make sense of a world where truth is no longer black and white but subtle, intriguing shades of gray.
Morgan ushers in a voice that, like hip-hop — the cultural movement that defines her generation — samples and layers many voices, and injects its sensibilities into the old and flips it into something new, provocative, and powerful.

Additional information

Book Author

Joan Morgan

Format

Ebooks

ISBN-13

9780684822624

Language

English

Pages

179

Publication Date

03-10-1999

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

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