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Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
by Zeba Blay

    Publication Date: Oct 19, 2021
    List Price: $16.99
    Format: Paperback, 272 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9781250231567
    Imprint: St. Martin’s Griffin
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
    Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

    Paperback Description:

    One of Kirkus Review’s Best Books About Being Black in America

    An empowering and celebratory portrait of Black women—from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B.

    In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was “a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online.”

    In this collection of essays, Carefree Black Girls, Blay expands on this initial idea by delving into the work and lasting achievements of influential Black women in American culture—writers, artists, actresses, dancers, hip-hop stars—whose contributions often come in the face of bigotry, misogyny, and stereotypes. Blay celebrates the strength and fortitude of these Black women, while also examining the many stereotypes and rigid identities that have clung to them. In writing that is both luminous and sharp, expansive and intimate, Blay seeks a path forward to a culture and society in which Black women and their art are appreciated and celebrated.




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