thick and other essays tressie mcmillan cottom

In essence, this book is about the compromises we make for the sake of control.' -Christian Century 'Incisive, witty, and provocative essays. It should be required reading for anyone interested in making 'trust black women' more than a hollow social media mantra.' -The New York Times Book Review 'Cottom's intersectionality is merely the work of a writer seeing the world clearly and deeply, and connecting the dots in fresh and revealing ways.' -Chicago Tribune 'Thick confirms McMillan Cottom as one of our most fearless public intellectuals and one of the most vital.' -Literary Hub, 'The 10 Best Essay Collections of the Decade' 'Thick gets into the messiness of US culture, exposing what Americans want to say but are sometimes too afraid or too unaware to say.

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.Praise for Thick: Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award 'Thick is sure to become a classic of black intellectualism, one that ought to be read not only in African-American and gender studies departments across the country, although its lens is irrefutably and irresistibly black and feminist. 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. 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. In the bestselling tradition of bell hooks and Roxane Gay, McMillan Cottom’s freshman collection illuminates a particular trait of her tribe: being thick. Tressie 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.

Thick and other essays tressie mcmillan cottom