Título:
You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain / Phoebe Robinson.
ISBN:
9780143129202
Autor personal:
Información de publicación:
New York : Plume, [2016]
©2016
Descripción física:
xxxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contenido:
Introduction -- From Little Rock Nine to nappy hair, don't care in eighteen and a half-ish years -- A brief history of Black hair in film, TV, music, and media -- My nine favorite not-so-guilty pleasures -- Welcome to being Black -- Dear future female president : my list of demands -- How to avoid being the Black friend -- Uppity -- Casting calls for people of color that were not written by people of color -- The angry Black woman myth -- People, places, and things that need to do better -- Letters to Olivia.
Síntesis:
A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson.
Being a Black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities. Robinson uses her trademark wit to explore and examine our cultural climate and skewer our biases with humor and heart.
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn945352996
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