Ripe
Essays
Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2022], ©2022.
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
"Essays at the intersection of race, sexuality, and pop culture that confront Kaudo's experience as a Black woman and ask what it means to own one's Blackness when contemporary white America simultaneously denigrates and appropriates Black culture"-- Provided by publisher
Series: 21st century essays.
Contents:
Marginalia -- Rind -- Ether -- How to Steal a Culture -- Kings, Queens, and Warriors -- Unbothered: A Microaggression -- D’Homme Americain: How to Emulate a White Man -- A Liberated Black Beauty -- Bodies of Water -- Nine Minutes -- Marginalia -- Flesh -- Black Girl Sabbath -- Me, My Fat, and I -- Thunder Thighs -- Messy: Brief Notes on Body Positivity -- The One Where My Femme Swallows You Whole -- The One Where My Femme Has a Punch -- The One Where My Femme Looks in the Mirror -- The One Where My Femme Brings You Back to Life -- The One Where My Femme Swells -- Interlude: The Part Thugs Skip -- For Your Pleasure -- Marginalia -- Seed -- What Will Follow -- Self-Portrait From the Coroner’s Table -- Ripe -- Contemplating God -- Reclaiming a Name.
Subjects:
Kaudo, Negesti.
African American women -- Social conditions.
African American women -- Social life and customs.
Racism.
African Americans in popular culture.
White people -- Race identity.
Kaudo, Negesti.
African American women -- Social conditions.
African American women -- Social life and customs.
Racism.
African Americans in popular culture.
White people -- Race identity.
ISBN:
9780814258187
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LITERATURE Essays Kau | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Essays Kau | Edgewood | Nonfiction | In |