Tamara Winfrey Harris

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The Sisters Are Alright, Second Edition

Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Beschreibung

A slew of harmful stereotypes continues to follow Black women. The second edition of this bestseller debunks vicious misconceptions rooted in long-standing racism and shows that Black women are still alright.

When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel followed close behind. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, big screen portrayals, and hit song lyrics. Author Tamara Winfrey Harris reveals that while emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, America still won t let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures.

The latest edition of this bestseller features new interviews with diverse Black women about marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more. Alongside these authentic experiences and fresh voices, Winfrey Harris explores the evolution of stereotypes of Black women, with new real-life examples, such as the rise of blackfishing and digital blackface (which help white women rise to fame) and the media s continued fascination with Black women s sexuality (as with Cardi B or Megan Thee Stallion).

The second edition also includes a new chapter on Black women and power that explores how persistent stereotypes challenge Black women s recent leadership and achievements in activism, community organizing, and politics. The chapter includes interviews with activists and civic leaders and interrogates media coverage and perceptions of Stacey Abrams, Vice President Kamala Harris, and others.

Winfrey Harris exposes anti Black woman propaganda and shows how real Black women are pushing back against racist, distorted cartoon versions of themselves. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a Black woman in America.

Autor

Tamara Winfrey Harris is a writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, In These Times, and Ms. and Bitch magazines and online at the American Prospect, Salon, the Guardian, Newsweek/Daily Beast, xoJane, the Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Clutch magazine, and Change.org. She has been called to address women’s issues in major media outlets, such as NPR’s Weekend Edition. The Sisters Are Alright is Foreword Reviews’ 2015 INDIEFAB Book Awards in Women’s Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781523093885
• ISBN-10: 1523093889
• Artikelnr.: 60978690

Rezensionen

Praise for the second edition:

The Sisters Are Alright is a brilliant example of Tamara Winfrey Harris s unique alchemy: bold writing and astute cultural analysis with Black women unapologetically centered. Here is the Black woman s experience rendered with grace, beauty, and righteous anger. Read this and know us more fully.
Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

While it is fashionable to say Believe Black women, for those who mean it, believe Tamara Winfrey Harris. She speaks for us, and when she says the sisters are alright, she has our proxy and puts respect on our names. She writes in the tradition of those Black women whose job it is to hold the sacred spaces of our

humanity, telling the world who we are not just politically, as the women who save democracy or flip Georgia, but who we are to ourselves and to each other. Who we are interpersonally, intellectually, spiritually, sexually. How we move our bodies and run through our own minds and how we ve had to walk, sometimes dance, sometimes trip through the world. Toni Morrison once wrote that the Black woman may very well have invented herself, and chapter by chapter, with historical complexity and contemporary context, Tamara Winfrey Harris tells you just how all that self-invention gets done and all the ways it remains a beautiful, elaborate ongoing project.
Lonnae O Neal, journalist and Senior Writer, ESPN s The Undefeated

No one should have to tell Black women that nothing is wrong with them. But thank God that Tamara Winfrey Harris does. And The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America does more than change the narrative. It gives that mythical, false, diminished narrative the funeral it deserves--powerful, decisive, heartbreaking, and final.
Rochelle Riley, author of The Burden and coauthor of That They Lived

Black women deserve everything, but it is not often that we get even a portion of what is owed to us. In the second edition of The Sisters Are Alright, using historical references and current events sewn into fabric made up of the diverse voices of Black women, Tamara Winfrey Harris again proves that she writes for us. Her work encompasses the fullness of the Black woman experience. In this book, Black women will find our challenges, our triumphs, and our Black girl joy. This book is truly the gift we always needed but never knew we would get.
Dr. Tyffani Monford Dent, psychologist and author of Black Girl and You Got This!

Society continues to deride and disrespect Black women. Tamara Winfrey Harris not only rejects that narrative; she rewrites it. In Sisters, Tamara brings to life the change she wants to see not just for herself but for all Black women.
Dr. Carolyn Strong, educator and author of Black Girl Blues

Praise for the first edition:

This energetic, passionate, and progressive mission statement illuminates old stereotypes that continue to dog black women today. Winfrey-Harris amplifies the voices of African-American women speaking for themselves, and the results are powerful, relevant, and affirming.
-Publishers Weekly

Harris challenges age-old constructions of black womanhood with real-life accounts from black mothers, daughters, aunties, and girlfriends who reject the popular narrative of brokenness.
-Jason Parham, Gawker

Using a combination of anecdotal evidence, historical research, and well-documented facts and studies, Harris has compiled an engaging and informative treatise on black womanhood in America.
-Lori L. Tharps, The Washington Post

The Sisters Are Alright enters a space where we re publicly contemplating race and blackness in particular quite a bit lately. That public contemplation has been fraught with a mixture of frustration, grief and anger at the way black people are treated and the way black bodies are viewed in the United States.
-Soraya Nadia McDonald, The Washington Post

The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative for Black Women in America challenges stereotypical portrayals of black women and highlights the need for nuanced, complex characters.
- Ariel Cheung, USA Today

With its insightful blend of personal narrative, cultural critique and reflective interview, your book follows in the critical and literary footsteps of such feminist/womanist writers as Michele Wallace, Patricia Hill Collins and bell hooks. Similar to these authors, you unpack the often damaging effect the myth of the self-sacrificing black superwoman has on black women s mental health and wellness.
-Sikivu Hutchinson, The Feminist Wire

One of the things I loved about [this] book was how it emphasized how self-love could help radically shift some of these perspectives. [This] book really tackles specific stereotypes that shape the way American culture perceives black women.
-Arielle Bernstein, Rumpus

Through explorations of marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty and more, Tamara Winfrey Harris counters warped prejudices by going far beyond the trope of Black women portrayed in American media. The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti Black-woman propaganda and shows the truth of what it s like to be a Black woman in America, a counter-narrative to the distorted depictions of themselves Black women are so often subject to.
-Amani Ariel, Blavity

The book pairs Harris' impeccable writing with stories of Black women and how they have been shaped by the stereotypes that are dictating how we view those around us.
-Emily Taylor, NUVO

The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America, Winfrey Harris first book, tackles long-standing stereotypes and misconceptions steeped in racism and misogyny surrounding Black women s sexuality, beauty, health and more. Included are interviews she conducted with hundreds of Black women of different ages and backgrounds.
-Ebony Chappel, Indianapolis Recorder

[Winfrey Harris] speaks to real Black women, relaying the fact we are not as broken as society paints us to be. After all, we are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in America, we have to be doing something right.
-Chelcee Johns, Madame Noir

The Sisters Are Alright invites Black women, and those who love and care about Black women to reject this age-old stereotype in favor of a more expansive and progressive notion of women s sexuality.
-Susana Morris, About News

Winfrey Harris book comes with us, both the celebrities and the sistahgurl down the street, letting us speak our own lives to power in this moment on our own terms.
-Andrea Plaid, Feminist Wire

Winfrey-Harris uses her distinctive voice to explore how Black women are thriving despite the odds stacked against us. She explores everything from marriage to sexuality in a way that will definitely cause affirmative head nods as reading.
-Evette Dionne, Clutch Mag

It s a book that reminds me that I m not alone, and that I m not crazy. All those moments I felt insecure or inadequate as a young adult a young adult without many Black girlfriends until I became a young adult weren t simply psychosomatic. By utilizing the anecdotes of other Black women, Winfrey Harris inspired me to wonder how my story might resonate with others, just as theirs resonate with me.
-Akirah Robinson, 1839 Mag

Tami Winfrey Harris provides some answers from both a historical and contemporary perspective. She argues that because of a pervasive public opinion about black women, assaults against them are often not perceived as newsworthy.
Winfrey Harris s book shows us that public representations of black women can be beneficial when the women involved are in control.
-Laina Dawes, Hazlitt

This book is a gift. With just the right mix of sister wit, statistical information, and a few well-timed rhetorical side-eyes, The Sisters Are Alright rushes in to save black women from the stereotypes that threaten to dull our shine.
Brittney Cooper, PhD, Assistant Professor of Women s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies, Rutgers University

Winfrey Harris [digs] into the project of remaking representations of black women as they truly are joyfully diverse, indelibly complex, and powerful architects of their own narratives."
Andi Zeisler, cofounder and Editorial/Creative Director, Bitch Media

Winfrey Harris sets the record straight. This is a love letter to all the sisters beautifully human and gorgeously flawed. Reading this book I felt seen, heard, and deeply understood. This is self-care between two covers.
Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow