“Morgan has given an
entire generation of Black feminists space and language to center
their pleasures alongside their politics.” —Janet Mock, New York
Times bestselling author of Redefining
Realness
“All
that and then some, Chickenheads informs and educates,
confronts and charms, raises the bar high by getting down low, and,
to steal my favorite Joan Morgan phrase, bounced me out of the room.”
—Marlon James, Man Booker Prize–winning author of A
Brief History of Seven Killings
Still
as fresh, funny, and ferociously honest as ever, this piercing
meditation on the fault lines between hip-hop and feminism captures
the most intimate thoughts of the post-Civil Rights, post-feminist,
post-soul generation.
Award-winning
journalist Joan Morgan offers a provocative and powerful look into
the life of the modern Black woman: a complex world in which
feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist
of men, where women who treasure their independence frequently 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 forty
percent of the 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.