The Sisters Are Alright [electronic resource] : Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Harris, Tamara Winfrey2015
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Celebrated writer Tamara Winfrey Harris writes a searing account of being a black woman in America and explains why it’s time for black women to speak for themselves.When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra—servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel—followed close behind. In the '60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures.Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a black woman in America. “We have facets like diamonds,” she writes. “The trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.”
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[Place of publication not identified] : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015
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1 online resource (1 audio file)
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9781626566514
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English
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2542973