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Title
Thick : and other essays
Author
McMillan Cottom, Tressie,
Publisher:
The New Press,
Pub date:
2019.
Description:
248 pages ;
ISBN:
1620974363
Item info:
6 copies currently available - Glen Allen Library, Twin Hickory Library, Tuckahoe Library, Libbie Mill Library, and Varina Library.
Number of holds:
0
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Thick : and other essays
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Personal Author:
McMillan Cottom, Tressie,
Title:
Thick : and other essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom.
Publication Info:
New York : The New Press, 2019.
264:
©2019
Physical descrip:
248 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Thick -- In the name of beauty -- Dying to be competent -- Know your whites -- Black is over (or, special black) -- The price of fabulousness -- Black girlhood, interrupted -- Girl 6 -- Notes.
Summary:
In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society. Ideas and identity fuse effortlessly in this vibrant collection that on bookshelves is just as at home alongside Rebecca Solnit and bell hooks as it is beside Jeff Chang and Janet Mock. It also fills an important void on those very shelves: a modern black American feminist voice waxing poetic on self and society, serving up a healthy portion of clever prose and southern aphorisms as she covers everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies. Thick speaks fearlessly to a range of topics and is far more genre-bending than a typical compendium of personal essays. An intrepid intellectual force hailed by the likes of Trevor Noah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Oprah, Tressie McMillan Cottom is "among America's most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister). This stunning debut collection - in all its intersectional glory - mines for meaning in places many of us miss, and reveals precisely how the political, the social, and the personal are almost always one and the same. -- From dust jacket.
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GLEN-ALLEN TWNHICKORY TUCKAHOE LIBBIEMILL VARINAAREA FAAREA
Subject term:
African American sociologists--Biography.
Subject term:
African American women--Biography.
Subject term:
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
Subject term:
Sociologists--United States--Biography.
Subject term:
Women sociologists--United States--Biography.
Subject term:
Women, Black--United States--Biography.
Geographic term:
United States--Race relations--History--21st century.
Geographic term:
United States--Social conditions--21st century.
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Autobiographies. lcgft
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