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December 14, 2011

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

by Melissa Harris-Perry, Yale University Press, - USA "Melissa Harris-Perry is one of our most trenchant readers of modern black life. In Sister Citizen, she gives new life to the idea that 'the personal is political.' This book will change the conversation about the rights, responsibilities, and burdens of citizenship."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

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