Tressie McMillan Cottom

Thick (eBook, ePUB)

And Other Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD



Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian



As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" (Publishers Weekly) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister)



Thick is sure to become a classic. The New York Times Book Review



In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottomaward-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Edis 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. Thick "transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women" (Los Angeles Review of Books) with "writing that is as deft as it is amusing" (Darnell L. Moore).



This "transgressive, provocative, and brilliant" (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom's position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the "personal essay" can do. She turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity, investigating everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies.



Collected in an indispensable volume that speaks to the everywoman and the erudite alike, these unforgettable essays never fail to be "painfully honest and gloriously affirming" and hold "a mirror to your soul and to that of America" (Dorothy Roberts).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The New Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781620974377
• Artikelnr.: 58558130

Autorenporträt

Tressie McMillan Cottom is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Lower Ed (The New Press). Her work has been featured by the Washington Post, NPR's Fresh Air, The Daily Show, the New York Times, Slate, and The Atlantic, among others.