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Misbehaving At The Crossroads: Essays & Writings
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The New York TimesBestselling, National Book AwardNominated Author Of The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Du Bois And The Age Of Phillis Makes Her Nonfiction Debut With This Personal And ThoughtProvoking Work That Explores The Journeys And Possibilities Of Black Women Throughout American History And In Contemporary Times.Honore Fanonne Jeffers Is At A Crossroads.Traditional African/Black American Cultures Present The Crossroads As A Place Of Simultaneous Difficulty And Possibility. In Contemporary Times, Kimberl Crenshaw Coined The Phrase Intersectionality To Explain The Unique Position Of Black Women In America. In Many Ways, They Are At A Third Crossroads: Attempting To Fit Into Notions Of Femininity And Respectability Primarily Assigned To White Women, While Inventing Improvisational Strategies To Combat Oppression.In Misbehaving At The Crossroads, Jeffers Explores The Emotional And Historical Tensions In Black WomenS Public Lives And Her Own Private Life. She Charts Voyages Of Black Girlhood To Womanhood And The Currents Buffeting These Journeys, Including The Difficulties Of Racially Gendered Oppression, The Challenges Of Documenting Black WomenS Ancestry; The Adultification Of Black Girls; The Irony Of Black Female Respectability Politics; The Origins Of Womanism/Black Feminism; And Resistance To White Supremacy And Patriarchy. As Jeffers Shows With Empathy And Wisdom, Naming Difficult Historical Truths Represents Both Blues And Transcendence, A Crossroads That Speaks.Necessary And Sharply Observed, Provocative And Humane, And Full Of The Insight And Brilliance That Has Characterized Her Poetry And Fiction, Misbehaving At The Crossroads Illustrates The Life Of One Extraordinary Black WomanAnd Her Extraordinary Foremothers.
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