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 anti black-woman propaganda and shows how real Black Women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. ".
The trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.
We have facets like diamonds, she writes.
She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a Black woman in America.
Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about Black women.
Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won\'t let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures.
These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics.
In the \'60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them.
When African Women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel followed close behind.
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 anti black-woman propaganda and shows how real Black Women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves
