num_pages: 194
description: "By confronting topics avoided in polite company--including progressive black folks--hooks helps us tackle our deepest fears, those we harbor about our self-worth as African Americans, and get on with the business of becoming."--Village Voice Literary Supplement. An empowering new book from the author of Ain't I A Woman.
language: English
title: Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
titlecomplete: Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
genres: Gender, African American, Social Justice, Sociology, Self Help, Race, Womens, Psychology, Nonfiction, Feminism
ratings_count: 1127
publisher: South End Press