The world isn’t ready to trust angry women. This book wants to change that.

In the women’s final of the U.S. open, the world came face-to-face with the righteous rage of a woman on live television. What came next, however, proved that society and the media were more irked by Serena Williams’ expression of anger and more interested in discussing her on-court decorum than interrogating the reasons behind the rage. 

As a racist cartoon circulated, perpetuating the “angry black woman” trope, op-eds branded Williams’ conduct as that of a “brat,” “hysterical” and an “outburst,” and people on Twitter opined that she behaved badly.

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