Thick : and other essays

Summary: In these essays exploring beauty, media, money, and more, the author - an award-winning professor - embraces her 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.--adapted from dust jacket flap.

Record details

ISBN: 9781620974377
ISBN: 1620974371
ISBN: 9781620974360
ISBN: 1620974363
ISBN: 9781620975879
ISBN: 1620975874
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (248 pages)
Publisher: New York : New Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Thick -- In the name of beauty -- Dying to be competent -- Know your whites -- Black is over (or, special black) -- The price of fabulousness -- Black girlhood, interrupted -- Girl 6.
Awards Note:	Longlisted for National Book Awards, 2019.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.