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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781620975879
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2019
Publisher: New Press, The
Description:
As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly and Well-Read Black Girl
Included in Foreword Reviews Best Books of 2019, Entrepreneur magazine's Best Books of 2019 for Entrepreneurs and The Stack Podcast's 10 Favorite Reads of 2019.
A New York Times Editor's Choice selection
Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award
In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom — award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed — is unapologetically thick: deemed 'thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less'.
McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. She embraces her venerated 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.
This bold compendium, likely to find its place on shelves alongside Lindy West, Rebecca Solnit, and Maggie Nelson, dissects everything from beauty to Obama to pumpkin spice lattes. Yet Thick will also fill a void on those very shelves: a modern black American female voice waxing poetic on self and society, serving up a healthy portion of clever prose and southern aphorisms in a style uniquely her own.
Thick cements McMillan Cottom's position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the 'personal ess
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781620975879
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2019
Publisher: New Press, The
Description:
As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly and Well-Read Black Girl
Included in Foreword Reviews Best Books of 2019, Entrepreneur magazine's Best Books of 2019 for Entrepreneurs and The Stack Podcast's 10 Favorite Reads of 2019.
A New York Times Editor's Choice selection
Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award
In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom — award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed — is unapologetically thick: deemed 'thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less'.
McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. She embraces her venerated 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.
This bold compendium, likely to find its place on shelves alongside Lindy West, Rebecca Solnit, and Maggie Nelson, dissects everything from beauty to Obama to pumpkin spice lattes. Yet Thick will also fill a void on those very shelves: a modern black American female voice waxing poetic on self and society, serving up a healthy portion of clever prose and southern aphorisms in a style uniquely her own.
Thick cements McMillan Cottom's position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the 'personal ess