They are blisteringly smart and beautifully written. These essays enlighten and complicate and push conversations further. Tressie McMillan Cottom is among America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time and she is at her very best here. Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist Thick is a necessary work and a reminder that Tressie McMillan Cottom is one of the finest public intellectuals writing today.” “To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth. BookRiot Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom PDF “This book is essential for anyone who wants to think deeply about race, feminism, and culture.”
A provocative volume bound to stir argument and discussion.” “The meshing of the personal and political and the author’s take-no-prisoners attitude make these essays sizzle. The collection showcases McMillan Cottom’s wisdom and originality and amply fulfills her aim of telling powerful stories that become a problem for power.” “Incisive, witty, and provocative essays. Christian Century Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom PDF In essence, this book is about the compromises we make for the sake of control.” “ Thick gets into the messiness of US culture, exposing what Americans want to say but are sometimes too afraid or too unaware to say. Literary Hub, “The 10 Best Essay Collections of the Decade” “ Thick confirms McMillan Cottom as one of our most fearless public intellectuals and one of the most vital.” “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.” It should be required reading for anyone interested in making ‘trust black women’ more than a hollow social media mantra.”
“ 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.
Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom PDF Collected in an indispensable volume that speaks to the everywoman and the erudite alike, these unforgettable essays never fail to be “painfully honest and gloriously affirming” and hold “a mirror to your soul and to that of America” (Dorothy Roberts).
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