Title |
Thick : and other essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom. |
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Publication Info. |
New York : The New Press, 2019. |
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©2019 |
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Description |
248 pages ; 23 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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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.
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Women sociologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Sociologists -- United States -- Biography.
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African American sociologists -- Biography.
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Women, Black -- United States -- Biography.
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African American women -- Biography.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Genre |
Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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Subject |
ocls african american bio
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ISBN |
9781620974360 (hc ; alk. paper) : $24.99 |
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1620974363 (hc ; alk. paper) |
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9781620975879 (paperback) |
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1620975874 (paperback) |
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ISBN |
9781620974360 (hc ; alk. paper) : $24.99 |
|
1620974363 (hc ; alk. paper) |
|
9781620975879 (paperback) |
|
1620975874 (paperback) |
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