About the book
Sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Lower Ed, collects eight essays on how American culture treats black women, written from her experience as a Southern black academic and public intellectual. Topics include beauty and ugliness, body image, money, the loss of a child, sexual violence and infant mortality, with stops at Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn and Trump rallies. One essay reads Donald Trump's election after Barack Obama through white voters' views of racial progress, and the title essay traces her path from being bow-legged to graduate school. Other titles include In the Name of Beauty and Girl 6. The collection was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Roxane Gay endorsed the collection, calling it necessary work and naming McMillan Cottom among the finest public intellectuals now writing.
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Roxane Gay (Author)
To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth. Thick is a necessary work and a reminder that Tressie McMillan Cottom is one of the finest public intellectuals writing today.
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