| Description |
248 pages ; 23 cm |
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Occupation/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members |
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Ethnic/cultural group: eth African Americans |
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Gender group: gdr Women |
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National/regional group: nat Virginians |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248). |
| Contents |
Thick -- In the name of beauty -- Dying to be competent -- Know your whites -- Black is over (or, special black) -- 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. |
| Awards |
Longlisted for National Book Awards, 2019. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
McMillan Cottom, Tressie.
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Women sociologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Women sociologists. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Sociologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Sociologists. |
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African American sociologists -- Biography.
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African American sociologists. |
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Women, Black -- United States -- Biography.
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Women, Black. |
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African American women -- Biography.
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African American women -- Biography. |
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century.
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Race relations. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Social conditions. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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African American women. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
1620974363 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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9781620974360 (hc ; alkaline paper) |
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1620974371 (ebook) |
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9781620974377 (ebook) |
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