Thick: And Other Essays

"In well-crafted, succinct language, Tressie McMillan Cottom delivers wide-ranging essays that rip the lid off commonly held racist tropes. She interrogates subjects that absorb us, but that we don’t often question, such as the meaning of beauty, the steep price of status symbols for black people and the slippery wiliness of whiteness. Cottom proves her independence as a scholar, public intellectual and creative thinker. What she unveils isn’t pretty and isn’t meant to be, but her sense of humor and lack of pretension brings grace and clarity to her message."