![]() "If they're wondering where I'm going with that, it says a lot about the reader, first of all. ![]() Author of " Thick: And Other Essays," a collection exploring the identity and experience that defines black womanhood in America. Tressie McMillan Cottom, writer, columnist, and professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. In her new collection of essays, Cottom says her work is animated by what’s still seen as a "radical idea … black women are rational and human." From that assumption, she works her way analytically through politics, economics, history, sociology and culture. But are we hearing every essential voice? Rhetorical question, because the answer is obviously no.įor example, not enough of us have heard the searing analysis from sociology professor and black feminist thinker Tressie McMillan Cottom. ![]() (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 3 years old.īeauty. ![]() "Thick And Other Essays," by Tressie McMillan Cottom. ![]()
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