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Learn moreJoan Morgan offers a provocative and powerful look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world in which feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men, where women who treasure their independence frequently 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 forty percent of the 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.
Still fresh, funny, and irreverent, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost gives voice to the most intimate thoughts of the postโCivil Rights, post-feminist, post-soul generation.
A pioneering hip-hop journalist and award-winning feminist author, Joan Morgan coined the term โhip-hop feminismโ in 1999 with the publication ofย When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, which is now used at colleges across the country. Morgan has taught at Duke University, Stanford University, and The New School.
Joy Bryant, born in the Bronx, New York, graduated from Westminster School and attended Yale University. An actress and former fashion model, she has had numerous movie and television roles, including Jasmine Trussell on Parenthood and Eleanor Holmes Norton on Good Girls Revolt.
Bahni Turpin, winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and several prestigious Audie Awards for her narrations, was named a โGolden Voiceโ by AudioFile magazine in 2019. Publishers Weekly magazine named her Narrator of the Year for 2016. She is an ensemble member of the Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles. She has guest starred in many television series, including NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Six Feet Under, Cold Case, What about Brian, and The Comeback. Film credits include Brokedown Palace, Crossroads, and Daughters of the Dust. She is also a member of the recording cast of The Help, which won numerous awards.
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Audiobook details
Author:
Joan Morgan
Narrators:
Joy Bryant & Bahni Turpin
ISBN:
9781538414668
Length:
5 hours 32 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:
April 4, 2017
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#49,315 Overall
Genre rank:
#2,898 in Social Science
Reviews
"The voice of a new generationโฆCommentary on what it is like for a Black woman to come of age, Gen-X styleโฆ[with] words and phrases that reflect todayโs popular culture.โ
โBrings a powerful voice to concerns of modern black women.โ
โA debut collection of impassioned essays, written in poetic, flowing proseโฆFresh and articulate. Steadily perceptive, shrewdly provocative.โ
โThis book is an important read for all people everywhere. Enjoy!โ
โEverything you want to know about the sistersโand then some.โ
โMorgan tussles with the perceived contradictions of being black, female, fly, and feministโฆA fresh alternative to accepted notions about black womanhood.โ
โDefinitely not your motherโs guide to the Equal Rights Amendmentโฆ.Morganโs reflections are as timely as they are cogent.โ
โJoan Morgan has style to burnโฆSheโs funny, fierce, and yes feminist.โ
โWhether one agrees with Morgan or not, the sister definitely makes you think.โ
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