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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
challenging
informative
tense
fast-paced
This book is a difficult read. Difficult in terms of the language used. I think the author has some great insights and stories to tell. And from a different perspective to me. I listened via @scribd
medium-paced
I absolutely loved this book! Jerkins comes across so genuinely! She states at the beginning of her book that its intended audience is anyone and everyone, but she also speaks specifically to Black women, which makes it all the more valuable in my opinion. With so many voices in feminist theory, we need more books like this!
Thought-provoking and reflective. Jerkins takes the reader on a personal journey on living in modern America as a independent, intelligent black woman.
I loved the first part of this book but then quickly lost interest and can't seem to pick it back up. Maybe I'll try again in the future.
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Read Roxanne Gay’s review of this book - she has the insight and experience to give it its critical due.
challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
While I was disappointed by this book, I had to check myself while reading it - this is not a work of fiction. This is Morgan Jerkins's lived experience whether I like it or not. It is clear that Morgan is a good writer, but the book is problematic for me. It seemed to me that whiteness and the white gaze were too present in this narrative although her intentions seemed to want to center her black woman-ness. I am not convinced that she succeeded - or is this work itself indicative of the oppressive weight of whiteness? (I'm writing this review at 4:44 AM - too many thoughts.) Honestly, I almost stopped reading after the first two chapters, but the book did get "better." I wonder if I would have liked the book better if the order of the chapters was different. The first few chapters and the obsession with whiteness and white women ruined it for me, I think. In the end, I understand this memoir to be the experience of a black woman trying to figure out race, love, identity, power, and honestly, blackness. It is difficult to rate someone's lived experience - especially one that I was not particularly inspired by - but I would recommend it to a friend. Maybe they could take more from it than I did. If nothing else, this book is definitely a conversation starter - and isn't that always the point?
reflective
slow-paced