Thick : and other essays

Title
Thick : and other essays

Author
McMillan Cottom, Tressie author.

ISBN
9781620974360

Physical Description
248 pages ; 23 cm.

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.

Subject Term
Women sociologists -- United States -- Biography.
 
Sociologists -- United States -- Biography.
 
African American women -- Biography.
 
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Geographic Term
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 21st century.
 
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Genre
Autobiographies

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. --


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Bayport Public Library301.092 COTNonfiction Collection
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)301.092 COTNonfiction Collection
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)301.092 COTNonfiction Collection