This Will Be My Undoing
Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
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This Will Be My Undoing
Narrated by:
Morgan Jerkins
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I felt like that girl who sees a warm welcome given to her by someone she hardly knows, and approaches with a smile, only to realise the person the wave and smile were intended for was just behind her. Kind of humiliating.
There are many things I could observe about this book, many flaws and generalisations (a major issue for me was the very fast and dull monotone the author read it in, which was not really resolved by reducing the speed to .95), but I don't think my opinion would be considered for a second in MJ's very black and American context.
I will say though, that if the chapter on black girls imitating white girls' attempts to dance like a black girl, and her gleeful drumming home of the anecdotal stories of black slaves imitating their clearly oblivious and dull-witted white masters was written in reverse, it would be considered neo-nazi in its sentiment.
The book seems to be for black women, not for anyone else. As a white European woman, I felt put down, preached at, and worst of all, painted into a corner, where any kind of action, move or word would only bring the 'blinding white' paint right up over me and down my throat.
A love letter to the usual centre-of-the-universe people like Michelle Obama and Beyoncé (yawn) and a hate letter to all of us who, it would seem, chose to be born white.
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