The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir

Backorder (temporarily out of stock)
4.9/5.0
21,000+ Reviews
Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world
Product Details
Price
$26.00  $24.18
Publisher
Catapult
Publish Date
Pages
320
Dimensions
6.3 X 9.1 X 1.3 inches | 1.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781646220090

Earn by promoting books

Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.

Become an affiliate
About the Author

Sophia Chang is a Korean-Canadian music business matriarchitect who was the first Asian woman in hip-hop. She worked with Paul Simon and managed Ol' Dirty Bastard, RZA, GZA, Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, Raphael Saadiq, and D'Angelo. In 1995, Chang left music to train kung fu and manage a Shaolin Monk who became her partner and father of two children. She also produced runway shows, worked at a digital agency, and is developing TV and film properties.

Reviews

"From marginalization to motherhood to martial arts and more, Chang really is a bad bitch." --Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine

"One of the most anticipated debuts of 2020." --Bleu Magazine

"The book will appeal to a variety of audiences--early hip-hop aficionados, young women (especially women of colour seeking to find their voice) and Asian North Americans looking for unique narratives of finding your culture and claiming your home. Impressively, it holds insight for all of these disparate groups. In The Baddest Bitch in the Room, Sophia Chang doesn't just resist the model minority stereotype (of the dutiful Asian daughter)--she obliterates it to tell us her own story. It's her turn." --Hee-Jung S. Joo, Winnipeg Free Press

"A compelling and moving account of the (North) American dream." --Susan Blumberg-Kason, Asian Review of Books

"A candid memoir . . . This impassioned memoir is filled with energy and will appeal to fans of early rap and the Wu-Tang Clan." --Publishers Weekly

"Chang has a storied history in the industry. Her love for hip-hop--the music and the artists--comes through loud and clear in this deeply personal memoir . . . The author writes wisely about erasure and fighting to be seen professionally as a woman of color . . . [A] thoughtful and revealing story. An intimate, entertaining, and engrossing read for hip-hop fans." --Kirkus Reviews

"An enlightening memoir about self-discovery, embracing one's heritage, and finding success." --Library Journal

"[Sophia]'s personally witnessed the ups and downs, the good and bad, the ins and outs, the accomplishments and failures, the growth and development. It's important for Sophia to tell her story because her journey is a long and very interesting one, and it should be told. I am sure that the readers will be inspired, moved, and motivated by it, and I am proud and happy for her." --GZA

"Sophia Chang is a smart, kind, funny, badass trailblazer with a heart of fire. She's fully living her bold truth as a woman of color in today's world, and we all should be paying attention."--Ijeoma Oluo, author of the New York Times bestselling So You Want to Talk About Race

"Embodies all of the scrappy, unapologetic badassery one would expect from a pioneering female industry exec in a far-from-woman-friendly genre. Chang, however, pays her success forward with bold, honest, and prescriptive prose aimed squarely at the hearts of women determined to defy their invisibility and follow their own dreams. Get ready to put your middle fingers up and cast your pearls aside." --Dr. Joan Morgan, feminist scholar, cultural critic, and mother of hip-hop feminism

"Soph was an integral part of the golden era of hip-hop. I'm so happy she's telling her story because the world needs to know about her contributions to the culture." --Q-Tip

"Inspirational, aspirational, bold, and defiant: Sophia Chang is the definition of a powerhouse, and this book is both fierce and propulsive, impossible to put down--but for me the greatest joy of reading The Baddest Bitch in the Room was simply spending a little time with a woman so thoroughly herself, so completely and unapologetically her own." --Nicole Chung, author of All You Can Ever Know

"The diary of a superwoman. Sophia Chang is like a superhero who shows up to any adversity, whether hers or someone else's, and gets through it tenaciously . . . I've actually witnessed this happen on several occasions but hearing her tell these stories in hindsight is incredibly motivating and uplifting." --Joey Bada$$ The Artist. The multi-faceted.