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441 reviews for:
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Morgan Jerkins
4.03 AVERAGE
441 reviews for:
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
Morgan Jerkins
4.03 AVERAGE
An insightful and eye-opening read. Would have loved to read this book as part of a class.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Some great, honest challenging writing on crucial topics here. But the essays often wandered far afield, the list essays didnt work for me, and it didn't hang together as a whole.
Morgan Jerkins is brilliant, but not a brilliant writer. Don't read this expecting anything radical.
An important read for furthering your understanding of the black experience and white privilege.
I cannot recommend this book ENOUGH. Morgan is talking about the things that nobody wants to talk about. As she says (much more eloquently than I'm about to), this book is about Black females--not white females, although they might find themselves represented as well. This is such an important text. Everyone needs to read it.
This was very good and also really hard to read due to Jenkins' total candor and raw honesty. I recommend it.
The author definitely kept me engaged, but not necesarily for all the right reasons. Many times I found myself perturbed by the author's experiences rooted from insecurities. I had to remember and respect that these were her personal experiences, and I thank the author for being so transparent and honest! I also believe Jerkins is still learning how to be comfortable with being a black woman. I was confused often.... she would harp on her need for any type of male attention, but then complained when she received attention that was mild mannered. She would often pride herself on her light skinned and ivy league privileges but then chastise those who dare to discriminate black women in the same manner. Many of the essays were quite discontinuous...often jumping from thought to thought and then circling around to previous thoughts without any cohesion which made the readingexperiencea little choppy for me. The obsession with white and Japanese culture was very cringey.... I didn't feel that sense of pride anytime she spoke about her own black culture. Nonetheless I stan black authors so I am still proud of her for opening up her life and her mind to the world.
This book was a great and quick read. It's wonderful to read someone like you articulate feelings that you might not have been able to articulate yourself. I felt like Morgan and I are similar in a lot of ways and the fact that she wrote a book at the same age as me is inspiring. I thought that it was great and very important that Morgan talked about a black woman's space and how that it is important to establish that space. This book was not only interesting but engaging. I learned a lot by reading this book and I would recommend it to other black women to read as well.