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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

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 hiphop — 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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 240
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780684822624
  • Genres
  • feminism, race, music, gender, womens, sociology
  • Release date
  • 1999