Title: When chickenheads come home to roost
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Civil rights, African American women, Feminists, Social conditions, Biography, Black Women, African Americans, Feminism, African American womenAfrican American women, Hip-hop feminism, Women, united states, biography, African americans, civil rights
Places: United States
People: Joan Morgan
LC classification: E185.86 .M63 1999