In the spirit of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, This Will Be My Undoing takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to "be"--to live as, to exist as--a black woman today? This is a book about black women, but it's necessary reading for all Americans.

Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged in our country's larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social, cultural, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well the white, male-dominated world at large.

Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties, but she has already established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who isn't afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects.

--New Jersey Monthly

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/30/2018
ISBN: 9780062666154
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/13/2017
Library Journal 12/01/2017
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2017
Booklist 12/01/2017 pg. 6
Shelf Awareness 01/30/2018
School Library Journal 07/01/2018 pg. 82