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Thick and other essays

"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 soc...

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Main Author: Cottom, Tressie McMillan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Kofman, Nadine tribute.
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.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Table of 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.

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