Thick : and other essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom.
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TextPublisher: New York ; London : The New Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781620974377
- 1620974371
- McMillan Cottom, Tressie
- Women sociologists -- United States -- Biography
- Sociologists -- United States -- Biography
- African American sociologists -- Biography
- Women, Black -- United States -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- Sociologists
- Social conditions
- Race relations
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- African American women
- African American sociologists
- Women, Black
- Women sociologists
- United States
- 2000-2099
- 301.092 23
- HM479.C68 C68 2019eb
- HM479.C68 A3 2019eb
- HM479.C68 C68 2019
- Longlisted for National Book Awards, 2019.
In these essays exploring beauty, media, money, and more, the author--an award-winning professor--embraces her 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. -- Adapted from dust jacket flap.
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.
Longlisted for National Book Awards, 2019.
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