Title: Thick Pdf And Other Essays
Author: Tressie McMillan Cottom
Published Date: 2019
Page: 224
Tressie McMillan Cottom is an assistant professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. 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. She lives in Richmond, Virginia
“Thick is sure to become a classic.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of “America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister)
In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom—award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed—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.
Ideas and identity fuse effortlessly in this vibrant collection that on bookshelves is just as at home alongside Rebecca Solnit and bell hooks as it is beside Jeff Chang and Janet Mock. It also fills an important void on those very shelves: a modern black American feminist voice waxing poetic on self and society, serving up a healthy portion of clever prose and southern aphorisms as she covers everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies. Thick speaks fearlessly to a range of topics and is far more genre-bending than a typical compendium of personal essays.
An intrepid intellectual force hailed by the likes of Trevor Noah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Oprah, Tressie McMillan Cottom is “among America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister). This stunning debut collection—in all its intersectional glory—mines for meaning in places many of us miss, and reveals precisely how the political, the social, and the personal are almost always one and the same.
The book I didn't know I needed Every essay spoke to my own experiences while also pushing me to think deeper. Hilarious, thought provoking and emotional. Highly recommendBrilliant, profound and witty I tore through Tressie McMillan Cottom's book in just a few hours, underlining copiously. There is so much wisdom and humor here, and her essay In The Name of Beauty is something I will return to again and again for its brilliance and boldness. Highly recommended!- Leta Hong FincherSmart, original & unflinching cultural analysis First off: I have zero qualifications for evaluating Prof. McMillan’s work— she’s a scholar, author and sociologist with a decade-long track record of exceptional work. I’m merely a reader and student of the human condition in all its permutations. But I literally could not wait for Thick’s physical publication date — every review made me that much more impatient to read it for myself — and I’m so glad I finally grabbed a Kindle edition. These essays are so crammed full of striking observations about America’s current and historical racial/economic/class schisms, I feel like it’ll take me two or three more reads to process even half of her well-reasoned arguments. Not unlike reading Plato’s dialogues, this book thrust me immediately into a series of challenging conversations with a wickedly sharp thinker, and left me keenly aware of how little I truly know about the world, for which I am very grateful.
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