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Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and by one of today s most intrepid public intellectualsTressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses on college data to unleashing another identity a purveyor of wit, wisdom and of course Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is so very wrong about this thing we call society In the bestselling tradition of bell hooks and Roxane Gay, McMillan Cottom s freshman collection illuminates a particular trait of her tribe being thick In form, and in substance.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.McMillan Cottom has crafted a black woman s cultural bible, as she mines for meaning in places many of us miss and reveals precisely how when you re in the thick of it the political, the social, and the personal are almost always one and the same. Free Download [ Thick ] By [ Tressie McMillan Cottom ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Tressie McMillan Cottom s essay collection Thick And Other Essays, is thick in every sense of the word This book is thick with wit and depth and intelligence as McMillan Cottom tackles black womanhood, contextualizing whiteness, beauty in a capitalist society, class mobility and muchShe engages, in fascinating ways, with the forces that bear down upon her from her subject position in prose that effortlessly blends the personal with the the...Without a doubt the best book I have read in 2019 thus far, Thick And Other Essays is thick with wit, intelligence, and an assured self awareness Tressie McMillan Cottom addresses many topics within the realm of black womanhood, including beauty standards and whiteness, ethnic differences within the black community, socioeconomic class and assimilating into capitalism, andI loved how she always took her analysis one step further, like in her essay about beauty, how she refutes the neoli Without a doubt the best book I have read in 2019 thus far, Thick And Other Essays is thick with wit, intelligence, and an assured self awareness Tressie McMillan Cottom addresses many topics within the realm of black womanhood, including beauty standards and whiteness, ethnic differences within the black community, socioeconomic class and assimilating into capitalism, andI loved how she always took her analysis one step further, like in her essay about beauty, how she refutes the neoliberal idea that we are all beautiful, and she instead asserts that we should question why we value beauty a...DNF at 26% I tried repeatedly to get into this book, but its just not my usual kind of book, although a good one, not for me I have a sleep disorder that knocks me right out if I don t find something gripping, and even on some that I do, so I have to save my read...My primary interest in requesting and reading this book was that I felt it might improve my understanding of the black female experience in the U.S., as I am always on the look for the type of works that combine personal narrative and scholarly insight, where the writer will always try to to refine my analytical concepts without sacrificing my prose Not because the data and research added would reinforce and legitimize the personal story, but because it brings into the light a new, different My primary interest in requesting and reading this book was that I felt it might improve my understanding of the black female experience in the U.S., as I am always on the look for the type of works that combine personal narrative and scholarly insight, where the writer will always try to to refine my analytical concepts without sacrificing my prose Not because the data a...Yeah, this was just as fantastic as everyone says it is.Yooooooo Tressie Tressie Tressie SIS SISSSSS This whole book rocked my entire world and like just got all up in my feelings and my mind and honestly, it just hit me like a ton of bricks There s so much important stuff here I m going to buy a copy for my sister in law because I think she should read it My highlights are all up on this post So many highlighted segments of just straight, pure truths Highlights inc...Thick is a non fiction book that straddles the line between academic writing and memoir something I personally really happen to enjoy Here McMillan Cottom writes on a variety of topics, often with anecdotal evidence centered into heracademic musings.This book both suffers and improves for me because McMillan Cottom comes from a similar academic tradition as I do On the one hand it means that I am bound to agree with a lot of her analyses, on the other hand some of her arguments do lose Thick is a non fiction book that straddles the line between academic writing and memoir something I personally really happen to enjoy Here McMillan Cottom writes on a variety of topics, often w...Thick If that isn t an apt title for this collection than I don t know what is, because this is a thick book Not thick in the amount of pages, but absolutely full of relevant and necessary information It isn t curing cancer or solving climate change But it is giving a voice and analytical eye to the way we treat, judge, measure, love, hate and depict Black women I knew after the very first essay in this collection that I was willing to analyze and absorb everything that Cottom had to write Thick If that isn t an apt title for this collection than I don t know what is, because this is a thick book Not thick in the amount of pages, but absolutely full of relevant and necessary information It isn t curing cancer or solving climate change But it is giving a voice and analytical eye to the way we treat, judge, measure, love, hate and depict Black women I knew after the very first essay in this collection that I was willing to analyze and absorb everything that Cottom had to write And write she ...I have only one critique of THICK I would likeof it.I wanted to read this book as soon as it was announced and could have read an advance copy but once I found out there was an audiobook I waited I love authors reading their own work and after following Cottom on Twitter for a few years I knew she would deliver She has.I do not read many essay collections even though they are having a burst of popularity Usually when I do they are comedic or a little on the lighter side It is not that I have only one critique of THICK I would likeof it.I wanted to read this book as soon as it wa...Holy smart person Tressie McMillan Cottom is an incredible writer andimportantly thinker She is connecting dots I ve not ever seen connected She is amazing at writing the turn in these essays Also she is narrow in focus in each essay which allows for depth and real interrogation Also she s funny, smart funny That s important too I also struggled with reading these essays, the language was so deliberate I had to reread because I would get confused Not a dig at the author,an Holy smart person Tressie McMillan Cottom is an incredible writer andimportantly ...

Thick
  • 15 February 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 256 pages
  • 1620974363
  • Tressie McMillan Cottom
  • Thick