There was the “average” woman who was “fairly clean” and liked to cook collard greens. There was the “lower grade woman” with greasy, lint-speckled hair and the posture of a toad. In her first tome, Ali divided all women into four categories, based primarily on their personal hygiene.
Don’t expect the kind of sensation and outrage that accompanied the first book, however. Now, Ali is back - this time taking the reverse tack: The Blackwoman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackman. It was an ugly little book, stupid and ignorant and not at all useful. And small wonder.īilled as an attempt to clarify - and thus help improve - the relationships between men and women, Blackman’s Guide actually was both ill- conceived and poorly executed. Shahrazad Ali’s Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman was like a stink bomb lobbed into the uncomfortable and cramped arena of male-female relationships.
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