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 · In Thick: And Other Essays Tressie McMillan Cottom offers powerful social critique about Black exceptionalism through well-researched and well-argued personal essays that reflect on her experience as a Black, thick, Southern intellectual. As a Black woman who recognizes the privilege of her intellect and education, Cottom brings a unique lens to her reflections on beauty, representation, work /5. Essay 1 Summary: “Thick”. McMillan Cottom describes herself as pregnant at 30, divorced at 31, and lost at As part of being lost, she finds herself at Rudean’s, a bar in a strip mall in Charlotte, North Carolina. During her first visit to Rudean’s, a man approaches her at the bar, and says, “Your hair thick, your nose thick, your.  · Review: Thick, And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom Eva Dunsky February 8, February 7, In college, I failed an anthropology assignment on thick description, the concept from which Dr. Cottom takes her title.

In the first essay in this collection, Tressie McMillan Cottom says that a publisher once told her she was "too readable to be academic, too deep to be popular, too country Black to be literary, and too naive to show the rigor of [her] thinking and the complexity of [her] prose." And yet, this is everything I loved about "Thick.". Choose items to buy together. This item: Thick: And Other Essays. by Tressie McMillan Cottom Paperback. $ In Stock. Ships from and sold by www.doorway.ru $ shipping. The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love. by Sonya Renee Taylor Paperback. Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom. Overview - In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom--award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed--is unapologetically thick: deemed thick where I should have been thin.

Tressie McMillan Cottom is an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Lower Ed. Her work has been featured by The Daily Show, the New York Times, the Washington Post, PBS, NPR, Fresh Air, and The Atlantic, among others. In , McMillan Cottom was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cotton "Thick" p. Added about 2 months ago by Marissa Butler Last updated about 1 month ago. Actions. Share Find original. This item: Thick: And Other Essays. by Tressie McMillan Cottom Paperback. $ In Stock. Ships from and sold by www.doorway.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. by Mikki Kendall Paperback. $