Thick
And Other Essays
New York : The New Press, 2019.
Format: Book
Description: 248 pages ; 23 cm
"In these eight ... explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom--award-winning professor and ... author of Lower Ed--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"--Dust jacket flap.
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.
Subjects:
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.
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.
ISBN:
9781620974360
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Cot | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/28/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references.