When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down [Paperback]

“Morgan has given an entire generation of black feminists space and language to center their pleasures alongside their politics.” —Janet Mock,New York Timesbestselling author ofRedefining Realness

“All that and then some,Chickenheadsinforms and educates, confronts and charms, raises the bar high by getting down low, and, to steal my favorite Joan Morgan phrase, bounced me out of the room.” —Marlon James, Man Booker Prize–winning author ofA Brief History of Seven Killings

Still fresh, funny, and irreverent after eighteen years,When Chickenheads Come Home to Roostgives voice to the most intimate thoughts of the post-Civil Rights, post-feminist, post-soul generation.

Joan 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.
Contents

intro.: dress up

the f-word

hip-hop feminist

from fly-girls to bitches and hos

strongblackwomen

strongblackwomen -n- endangeredblackmen...this is not a love story

lovenote

babymother

chickenhead envy

one last thing before I go

source notes

indexTOUCHSTONE READING GROUP GUIDE
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
1. Morgan says that, more than any other generation before, this generation needs a feminism committed to keeping it real. How does this translate day-to-day, person-to-person? Is it posslƒE