Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded Upon Violence and Respectability - Paperbackby Kemeshia Randle Swanson (Author) Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied on maverick like characteristics to survive. And yet, these liberating qualities have been repeatedly disparaged by the masses in favor of an elitist politics of respectability. In Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded upon Violence and Respectability, scholar Kemeshia Randle Swanson examines the extent to