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Thick
- And Other Essays
- Narrated by: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Recommended by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Book Riot, BuzzFeed, Bust, LitHub, The Millions, HelloGiggles, and UrbanDaddy
“The author you need to read now.” (Chicago Tribune)
“To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth.” (Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist)
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.
What the critics say
"To listen to sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom narrate her prose confirms that no other narrator could do better.... As narrator, Cottom is a divine spinner of tales who knows the right amount of sarcasm to add to certain words. She also knows the right words to express her points and delivers them in such a hypnotic rhythm that one does not want to stop listening." (AudioFile Magazine)
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- Mark
- 2021-04-27
Painting prose beautifully
I like how she paints words. The book is equally important and novel. Exceptional read.
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- Brianna
- 2020-10-26
Brilliant
A very thought provoking and well written collection of essays that I enjoyed very much. Tressie is a fantastic narrator!
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- Jenn G
- 2021-03-16
Important, incisive and grounded
I thought this book did a fantastic job of exploring power and social forces at work. And it connected the micro to the macro very effectively, which allowed me as a non-sociologist to grasp (most of) the sociological complexities the book explores. I will read this again.
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- JohnS
- 2021-03-16
A thoughtful collection
I really enjoyed this collection of essays. The author is forthright and clear about her thoughts/opinions on a variety of topics affecting Black women. I hope that there will be another collection coming soon.
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- RS
- 2021-01-20
Disappointing
I’m sorry. As a white, jewish child of holocaust victims and an empath i wanted insight from Ms. McMillan Cotton. This is well written in terms of vocabulary and intelligence but overall this woman has a huge chip on her shoulder not just for whites but everyone - even Barak Obama. So disappointed. She should look inward.
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