{"product_id":"misbehaving-at-the-crossroads-essays-writings","title":"Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays \u0026 Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Balcones Prize in Nonfiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle award for Nonfiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Age of Phillis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHonorée Fanonne Jeffers is at a crossroads.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTraditional African\/Black American cultures present the crossroads as a place of simultaneous difficulty and possibility. In contemporary times, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the phrase “intersectionality” to explain the unique position of Black women in America. In many ways, they are at a third crossroads: attempting to fit into notions of femininity and respectability primarily assigned to White women, while inventing improvisational strategies to combat oppression.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMisbehaving at the Crossroads\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Jeffers explores the emotional and historical tensions in Black women’s public lives and her own private life. She charts voyages of Black girlhood to womanhood and the currents buffeting these journeys, including the difficulties of racially gendered oppression, the challenges of documenting Black women’s ancestry; the adultification of Black girls; the irony of Black female respectability politics; the origins of Womanism\/Black feminism; and resistance to White supremacy and patriarchy. As Jeffers shows with empathy and wisdom, naming difficult historical truths represents both Blues and transcendence, a crossroads that speaks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNecessary and sharply observed, provocative and humane, and full of the insight and brilliance that has characterized her poetry and fiction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMisbehaving at the Crossroads\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e illustrates the life of one extraordinary Black woman—and her extraordinary foremothers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67607309746492,"sku":"9780063246645","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/2005\/files\/81FwKwWPq6L._SL1500.jpg?v=1790789594","url":"https:\/\/frugalbookstore.net\/products\/misbehaving-at-the-crossroads-essays-writings","provider":"Frugal Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}