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Carefree Black Girls

A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

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Carefree Black Girls is an exploration and celebration of Black women’s identity and impact on pop culture, as well as the enduring stereotypes they face, from a film and culture critic for HuffPost.

In 2013, Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. It was, as she says, “a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for black women online”.

In this collection of essays, Blay expands on that initial idea by looking at the significance of influential Black women throughout history, including Josephine Baker, Michelle Obama, Rihanna, and Cardi B. Incorporating her own personal experiences as well as astute analysis of these famous women, Blay presents an empowering and celebratory portrait of Black women and their effect on American culture. She also examines the many stereotypes that have clung to Black women throughout history, whether it is the mammy, the angry Black woman, or more recently, the thot.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Griffin

©2021 Zeba Blay (P)2021 Macmillan Audio African American Studies Americas Black & African American Gender Studies Popular Culture Social Sciences Specific Demographics United States

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I have learned so much with this book. I am humbled. I also related to some parts of it. Not to discredit her overall point.

Beautiful.

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Raw and honest, I was deeply moved by this book. It spoke to my soul.

Excellent from start to finish!

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You enjoy informative, thought provoking storytelling and from a black woman’s lens. Zeba did an amazing job at using different topics to circle back to one bigger topic - Carefree Black Girls. This is a must read, not once but twice.

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Blay’s essays are thought provoking and nuanced. As a mixed AfroAm/Indo-Caribbean woman, I particularly found Blay’s light discussion of blackness in relation to Cardi B and Nikki Minaj interesting.

Beautifully written and read

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