Joan Morgan offers a provocative and powerful check out the life of the present day black woman: a complex world in which feminists frequently have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of males, where women who treasure their self-reliance frequently prefer men who pick up the tab, where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black women who long for marriage that traditional nuclear households are a fact for less than forty percent of the populace, and where dark women are forced to make sense of a global where truth is no more black and white colored but subtle, intriguing shades of gray.

Still clean, funny, and irreverent, When Chickenheads GET BACK to Roost gives voice to the most intimate thoughts from the post-Civil Rights, post-feminist, post-soul generation.