![]() In the first, she goes back to elementary school, when she realized that “the only thing I wanted was to be a white cheerleader.” Other pieces consider the fraught issue of hair for black women, the self-repression imposed by the taboo against being thought a “fast-tailed girl,” the social pressure to identify as a “human” rather than as a “black woman,” and her ambivalence about the “black girl magic” movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her essays, usually deeply personal and always political, examine that unease. In the provocative essays collected in her first book, Jerkins meditates on how it feels to be a black woman in the United States today.īrought up in suburban New Jersey, educated at Princeton, and now living in Harlem and working in publishing, the author often feels like an outsider. ![]()
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