Thick : and other essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : The New Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 248 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1620974363
- 9781620974360
- Women sociologists -- United States -- Biography
- Sociologists -- United States -- Biography
- African American sociologists -- Biography
- Women, Black -- United States -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- 301.092 23
- HM479.C68 C68 2019
- HM479.C68 A3 2019
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301.092 CAM The Cambridge companion to Durkheim / | 301.092 CHA Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / | 301.092 COT Thick : and other essays / | 301.092 COT Thick : and other essays / | 301.092 DUR Durkheim : a critical introduction / | 301.092 GOF Goffman unbound! : a new paradigm for social science / | 301.092 GOF The Goffman reader / |
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
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