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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
Morgan’s story and experiences were thought-provoking. She made me reflect on my privilege, experiences, and choices.
I think the best descriptor here is raw and unapologetic. I'm not sure how to summarise this collection of essays other than to say that it's real and not always cute. Morgan skewers with her words and it can be both a surprise and a delight throughout.
This Will Be My Undoing is a collection of essays featuring moments/periods in Jerkins’ life. She uses her years of schooling, her college life, and her writing as an example of race and racism in America. For the most part I enjoyed it but sometimes I was a little bored. Overall, especially chapter 8, I found her writing in solidarity with my own feelings of and around Black womanhood.
It's a slow read and a lot to digest. I had to stop and ask myself multiple times, "what am I feeling offended or angry by this?" or "let's step back and understand how this is true and how you've overlooked this in the past." This book was so eye-opening as a white woman who also struggles with feminism, but I'm so glad I read this book and I'm sure I'll think about sections of the text for years to come.
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This is a great read for those that are looking for a more personal account of how racism impacts the day to day life of a black person. This isn't academic so if you need more of a foundation in this space I would start elsewhere but I found this to be a really illuminating set of essays.
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This Will Be My Undoing
4/5
I know some people choose not to rate nonfiction books, especially one like this that's so personal, but I did want to recognize that I found this to be wonderfully written and had such a lyrical and addictive quality that I've rarely seen in nonfiction.
I did feel like at times this felt like it was dismissing the identical struggles that other women of color who are not black have been through and making it seem as though those aggressions that they face were not as bad because they are not black. As a latin women I always feel off put when marginalized groups attack one another so that they are the only ones who are heard.
Overall I thought this was so powerful though and I will definitely read more from this author.
4/5
I know some people choose not to rate nonfiction books, especially one like this that's so personal, but I did want to recognize that I found this to be wonderfully written and had such a lyrical and addictive quality that I've rarely seen in nonfiction.
I did feel like at times this felt like it was dismissing the identical struggles that other women of color who are not black have been through and making it seem as though those aggressions that they face were not as bad because they are not black. As a latin women I always feel off put when marginalized groups attack one another so that they are the only ones who are heard.
Overall I thought this was so powerful though and I will definitely read more from this author.