When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost : My Life as A Hip Hop Feminist

About this book

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.