Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings – A Personal and Historical Exploration of Black Women's Journeys Through Intersectionality
Description
In this incisive nonfiction debut, a celebrated novelist and poet explores the crossroads where Black women’s personal histories, public identities, and visions of freedom converge. Drawing on memoir, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry, the essays examine Black girlhood and womanhood, ancestry, adultification, respectability politics, Womanism, and the intertwined forces of racism and patriarchy. With lyrical intelligence and emotional candor, the author considers how Black women have navigated inherited constraints while creating powerful forms of resistance, self-definition, and possibility. The result is a deeply personal and wide-ranging meditation on intersectionality, memory, and the difficult truths that can lead toward transcendence.
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paperback
Harper
Published May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9780063246638
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First Published
2025
Language
eng
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