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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost (hardcover)
by Joan Morgan

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    Publication Date: Mar 10, 1999
    List Price: Unavailable
    Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780684822624
    Imprint: Simon & Schuster
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
    Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.

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    Hardcover Description:

    In this fresh, funky, and irreverent book, a new voice of the post-Civil Rights, post-feminist, post-soul generation has emerged in Joan Morgan: a groundbreaking and unflinching author who probes the complex issues facing African-American women today. 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 hip-hop — 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.



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