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Thick : and other essays / Tressie McMillan Cottom.

Author/creator McMillan Cottom, Tressie author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New York : The New Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice ©2019
Description248 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Awards noteLonglisted for National Book Awards, 2019.
Genre/formBiography.
Genre/formHistory.
Genre/formAutobiographies.
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formAutobiographies.
LCCN 2018042930
ISBN9781620974360 (hc ; alk. paper)
ISBN1620974363 (hc ; alk. paper)
ISBN9781620975879 (paperback)
ISBN1620975874 (paperback)
ISBN9781620974377 (ebook)
ISBN1620974371 (ebook)

Available Items

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HM479 .C68 C68 2019 ✔ Available Place Hold