num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
titlecomplete: When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
genres: Feminism, Hip Hop, Womens, African American, Memoir, Social Justice, Music, Gender, Race, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1972
publisher: Simon & Schuster