hat at this mcdaniel became the first black woman to win an oscar when she played the role in gone with the wind and the angry black woman, stereotype enshrined portraying women as irrational neck rolling and hateful. sister citizen asks us to look through the lens of black women s complicated and sometimes painful experiences in this country. i tell stories as distant of a free black woman who was arrested and publicly beaten in 1853 virginia for supposedly stealing a white man s chickens. even though there wasn t much meaningful evidence against her. i also analyzed more contemporary figures like shirley cher ard and first lady michelle obama. because these women help us to understand how modern black women find their true north in a room still made crooked by shaming stereotypes. the book is now available in paperback. i d love to hear from you in nerdland about what you think about it.