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The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES

What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing!

The Sisters Are Alright exposes antiâ€“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 hydraâ€”servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebelâ€”followed close behind. In the '60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. 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. â€œWe have facets like diamonds,â€ she writes. â€œThe trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.â€

Country	USA
Brand	Berrett-Koehler
Manufacturer	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	new18-05-032016-b0006807
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2015-07-07
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884252598894
EANs	9781626563513

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