num_pages: 258
description: From one of the fiercest critics writing today Morgan Jerkins highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture feminism black history misogyny and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman todayperfect for fans of Roxane Gays Bad Feminist Rebecca Solnits Men Explain Things to Me and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichies We Should All Be Feminists.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.
language: English
title: This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
publisher: Harper Perennial