书籍介绍
In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom—award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed—embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society.
Ideas and identity fuse effortlessly in this vibrant collection that on bookshelves is just as at home alongside Rebecca Solnit and bell hooks as it is beside Jeff Chang and Janet Mock. It also fills an important void on those very shelves: a modern black American feminist voice waxing poetic on self and society, serving up a healthy portion of clever prose and southern aphorisms as she covers everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies. Thick speaks fearlessly to a range of topics and is far more genre-bending than a typical compendium of personal essays.
An intrepid intellectual force hailed by the likes of Trevor Noah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Oprah, Tressie McMillan Cottom is “among America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister). This stunning debut collection—in all its intersectional glory—mines for meaning in places many of us miss, and reveals precisely how the political, the social, and the personal are almost always one and the same.
精彩摘录
- "Beauty is a wonderful form of capital in a world that organizes everything around gender and then requires a performance of gender that makes some of its members more equal than others."
- "There is now an entire shelf among the periodicals at my nearby chain bookstore filled with magazines that will give me five meditations or three coloring book pages or nine yoga retreats or fourteen farmhouse ideas or nineteen paper-crafting inspirations that, if purchased, will acculturate me to a"
- "There is now an entire shelf among the periodicals at my nearby chain bookstore filled with magazines that will give me five meditations or three coloring book pages or nine yoga retreats or fourteen farmhouse ideas or nineteen paper-crafting inspirations that, if purchased, will acculturate me to a"
- "They are good people. They want all the children in their child's school to thrive, but they want their child to thrive just a bit more than most. To help their child thrive, these parents use their proximity to local and civic leaders to lobby their personal preferences as politically expedient pos"
作者简介
Tressie McMillan Cottom has been called "a master of metaphor" (Soraya McDonald), one of "America's most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister) and "one of the finest public intellectuals writing today" (Roxane Gay). McMillan Cottom centers black women in uncommonly incisive analysis of social problems. She lives in Richmond, Virginia where she is an associate professor of sociology.
用户评论
了解了世界的另一个部分。怀孕的那个故事忘不了，还有in the name of beauty里那句“recognizing what was done to me and who did it”也忘不了。
明明可以做到更多但只完成了bare minimum，聽名字以為會著重探究身體問題誰知只是雜文集，對亞裔的一些評述讓人覺得作者並不完全了解intersectionality（你知道吧，探究自己的種族創傷不用以輕言其他少數族群經歷為代價）⋯⋯ 只能說還行。
囫囵吞枣地读毕，「Know Your Whites」启发最深：美国为什么会在选出奥巴马后立刻又选择了特朗普。白人共同体权力的伸缩性或许可以做出解释。
多是第一人称小论文，夹叙夹议。并没有勾勒出一个基础，清晰的黑人女权主义框架。不过本就是个人随笔集，就不苛求啦。还是值得一读，反正书也不厚。
“They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that ugly is as ugly does. Both are lies. Ugly is everything done to you in the name of beauty. Knowing the difference is part of getting free.”
非常喜欢 in the name of beauty 那篇
Intersectionality让我有了新的思考。
非常喜欢作者如机关枪般犀利的文笔。虽然写的是黑人（尤其是女性)的处境，但很多是相通的。“Writing is democratic, but writing well is not." “When you are vulnerable and on the losing end of the power dynamic, all you can hear of that kind of direct, unsolicited feedback is how—despite all of your hard work—you are still doing everything wrong.”
fellas, it happened. i read a book and it changed everything. i’ll never be the same
可能是这类personal essay中挺高的水准了。喜欢作者的愤怒和激进。推进少数族裔的权益，必须激进，不激进就溅不起水花。也喜欢她言辞的犀利，仿佛利剑出销，非戳到你痛处不可。
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