You Can't Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain
New York : Plume, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: xxxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson.
Contents:
Introduction -- From Little Rock Nine to nappy hair, don't care in eighteen & half-ish years -- A brief history of black hair in film, TV, music, & media -- My nine favorite not-so-guilty pleasures -- Welcome to being black -- Dear future female president: my list of demands -- How to avoid being the black friend -- Uppity -- Casting calls for people of color that were not written by people of color -- The angry black woman myth -- People, places, & things that need to do better -- Letters to Olivia.
Subjects:
Robinson, Phoebe.
Robinson, Phoebe -- Humor.
African American women comedians -- Biography.
Television comedy writers -- United States -- Biography.
Robinson, Phoebe.
Robinson, Phoebe -- Humor.
African American women comedians -- Biography.
Television comedy writers -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780143129202
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Robinson, Phoebe | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Robinson, Phoebe | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |