This Will Be My Undoing: Living At The Intersection Of Black, Female, And Feminist In (white) America
by Morgan Jerkins /
2018 / English / PDF
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Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties, but she has already
established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who
isnt afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects. In This Will
Be My Undoing, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative
contemporary topics: What does it mean to beto live as, to exist
asa black woman today? This is a book about black women, but its
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
countrys 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 as the white,
male-dominated world at large.Whether shes writing about Sailor
Moon, Rachel Dolezal, the stigma of therapy, her complex
relationship with her own physical body, the pain of dating when
men say they dont see color, being a black visitor in Russia, the
specter of the fast-tailed girl and the paradox of black female
sexuality, or disabled black women in the context of the Black Girl
Magic movement, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory.
Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties, but she has already
established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who
isnt afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects. In This Will
Be My Undoing, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative
contemporary topics: What does it mean to beto live as, to exist
asa black woman today? This is a book about black women, but its
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
countrys 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 as the white,
male-dominated world at large.Whether shes writing about Sailor
Moon, Rachel Dolezal, the stigma of therapy, her complex
relationship with her own physical body, the pain of dating when
men say they dont see color, being a black visitor in Russia, the
specter of the fast-tailed girl and the paradox of black female
sexuality, or disabled black women in the context of the Black Girl
Magic movement, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory.
