Carefree Black Girls A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

Zeba Blay

eAudio - 2021

One of Kirkus Review's Best Books About Being Black in America"Powerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with empathy, Blay's pivotal work will engage all readers, especially fans of Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism." —Kirkus (Starred)This program is read by the author.An empowering and celebratory portrait of Black women - from Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B.In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was "a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online."In this collection of essays, Carefree Black Girls, Blay expands on this initial i...dea by delving into the work and lasting achievements of influential Black women in American culture - writers, artists, actresses, dancers, hip-hop stars - whose contributions often come... more