You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain

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Being a Black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities. Robinson uses her trademark wit to explore examine our cultural climate and skewer our biases with humor and heart.

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ISBN:

9780143129202

Description:

xxxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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You cannot touch my hair and other things I still have to explain

Contents:

Introduction
From Little Rock Nine to nappy hair, don't care in eighteen & 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, & things that need to do better
Letters to Olivia

LCCN:

2016018322

Control Number:

1929398

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