{"product_id":"when-chickenheads-come-home-to-roost-a-hip-hop-feminist-breaks-it-down-paperback","title":"When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Morgan has given an entire generation of Black feminists space and language to center their pleasures alongside their politics.\" --Janet Mock, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eRedefining Realness\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"All that and then some, \u003ci\u003eChickenheads\u003c\/i\u003e informs 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 of \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStill as fresh, funny, and ferociously honest as ever, this piercing meditation on the fault lines between hip-hop and feminism captures the most intimate thoughts of the post-Civil Rights, post-feminist, post-soul generation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning journalist 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pioneering hip-hop journalist and award-winning feminist author, Joan Morgan coined the term \"hip-hop feminism\" in 1999 with the publication of \u003ci\u003eWhen Chickenheads Come Home to Roost\u003c\/i\u003e, which is now used at colleges across the country. Morgan has taught at Duke University, Stanford University, and The New School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761536958752,"sku":"9780684868615","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b8d3735a055da0d521a885fc5398dce9.webp?v=1780209927","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/when-chickenheads-come-home-to-roost-a-hip-hop-feminist-breaks-it-down-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}