When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

Reading this book is not so much like learning or studying Black feminism in the era of hip hop, with a culture and climate steeped in bold misogyny wrapped in a tight flow over a fly beat. It's more like listening in on your older cousin and her girlfriends discuss life in the 90s as 20 or 30-somet......more

I feel like this book misrepresents itself. She starts off raising legitimate questions about the double-binds Black feminism imposes on women who both identify as such and don't. However by the end of the book, she's coming down on the side of finding it okay that women want to be taken care of by......more

Joan Morgan is a vibrant, intellectual powerhouse of a writer, but her thought train here is more than a little schizophrenic. Not to be a picker of nits, but one cannot spend 260+ pages saying how black men need to be more responsible and accountable, and then be flippant and dismissive about the c......more

This book made me cringe. What's interesting is that I bought it about 9 years ago, read half of it and loved it. Time is a masterpiece. Morgan claims that she wants to uplift the black community through hip hop feminism but doing so, she tears us apart, mainly black women. There is much talk about......more