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The Sisters are Alright : Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America / Tamara Winfrey Harris.

LIBRA E185.86 .W5565 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Winfrey Harris, Tamara.
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African American women--Social conditions.
African American women.
African American women--Public opinion.
African American women--Biography.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology).
Public opinion.
United States.
Racism--United States.
Racism.
Sexism--United States.
Sexism.
United States--Race relations.
Race relations.
United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
Social conditions.
Public opinion--United States.
Genre:
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 147 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Oakland, California : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015.
Summary:
What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti-black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of 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 unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day. 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." Book jacket.
Contents:
Introduction: The trouble with black women
Beauty: pretty for a black girl
Sex: bump and grind
Marriage: witches, thornbacks, and sapphires
Motherhood: between Mammy and a hard place
Anger: twist and shout
Strength: precious mettle
Health: fat, sick, and crazy
Epilogue: The sisters are alright.
Notes:
"A BK Currents Book"
"Cover design: Wes Youssi, M.80 Design. Cover illustration by Adee Roberson."
Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy 1 has [3] leaves of discussion questions concerning this book laid in.
Banks Collection copy 2 has label of Joanna Banks ("This book belongs to Joanna Banks. Please Return!").
Banks Collection copy 2 has Book World book review laid in.
ISBN:
9781626563513
1626563519
OCLC:
892890571

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