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

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 mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jerkins, Morgan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harper Perennial, [2018]
Subjects:	African American women > Economic conditions. African American women > Social conditions. African Americans > Economic conditions. African Americans > Social conditions. Women > Economic conditions. Women > Social conditions. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. Autobiographies. Essays.
Genre:	Autobiographies. Essays.
Physical Description:	258 pages ; 21 cm

Table of Contents:

Monkey like you
How to be docile
The stranger at the carnival
A hunger for men's eyes
A lotus for Michelle
Black girl magic
Human, not black
Who will write us?
How to survive: a manifesto on paranoia and peace
A black girl like me.