![]() ![]() ![]() The article was widely criticized by people who quickly wrote her off as being lazy. I was trying to learn behavior that should have been instinctive, behavior that I had been conditioned to see as outside of the norm. I did not know where to start, or who could teach me. I did not know how to live in a black space. She eagerly writes an article for the Guardian about her experience in Harlem: Raised in a New Jersey suburb and a recent transplant to Harlem, she describes the awkwardness she feels to being a black gentrifier in a historic black neighborhood in New York. This Will Be My Undoing makes room for Jerkins to address the personal anxieties often read as “awkwardness” that black women feel while moving through different spaces.Įarly on, we see that Jerkins comes from a place of privilege. Jerkins makes the personal political as she covers topics concerning the complexity of black womanhood. ![]() In This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female and Feminist in (White) America (2018), Morgan Jerkins shares her most vulnerable moments as a black girl and woman through a collection of personal essays. ![]()
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