Straight, No Chaser is a provocative look at black women's struggle to form positive identity in a hostile culture. Jill Nelson sets the terms of the discussion when she defines black women as belonging to the two most loathed groups in America, those who are black and those who are female. Her book explores the attitudes, events, and icons - from Barbie to black nationalism to the Million Man March - through the eyes of a politically aware black woman. What she finds is that black women are most often invisible, ignored, and misrepresented.