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Title Thick : and other essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom.
Author Cottom, Tressie McMillan, author.
Publication Info. New York : The New Press, 2019.
©2019
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B COTTOM    Check Shelves
 South Creek  B COTTOM    Check Shelves
Description 248 pages ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Summary "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.
Awards Longlisted for National Book Awards, 2019.
Subject Cottom, Tressie McMillan.
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.
Genre Biography.
Autobiographies.
Subject ocls african american bio
ISBN 9781620974360 (hc ; alk. paper) : $24.99
1620974363 (hc ; alk. paper)
9781620975879 (paperback)
1620975874 (paperback)