A review by tofutofutofu
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins

4.0

Where this book stands out from other discussions of black womanhood is how completely it centers black women. In doing so, Jerkins steps into more controversial territory, leading to a highly engaging book. Rather than focusing entirely on white people as the source of black women's pain, she reclaims the agency of black women through essays on mother-daughter misogynoir, her feelings of misogynoir against a classmate, and her early denial of her own black girlhood. She takes the exceptionalism of black women to its edge in one of the later essays, stating "when we are specifically talking about black women's experiences, the magnifying glass need no move to any other melanin-rich subject."