When chickenheads come home to roost
Subtitle: my life as a hip-hop feminist
By: Joan Morgan.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Morgan, Joan; African American women -- Biography; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; African American women -- Social conditions; African American women -- Civil rights
Other titles: When chicken heads come home to roost
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index.