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 t...
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.
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 w...
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.
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. (查看原文)
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 achieve "inner beauty." Mind you, the consumption is always external and public. These are quite literally called "lifestyle" magazines, which begs the question "Whose lifestyle?" These are ways of expressing a kind of femininity, a kind of woman, for whom beauty is defined to selectively include or exclude. These are consumption goods made for a lifestyle associated with white western women for a certain status, class, profession, and disposition. These are for women who *can* be beautiful, if o... (查看原文)
“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.”
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0 有用 MichaelZ 2026-01-16 00:55:18 美国
整本充斥着平庸和半瓶子晃荡的小聪明。cottom许多小聪明的“洞察”也能被用于她自己的洞察本身上，陷入无限的鄙视循环。同时，像大多数主流且间于专业和娱乐之间的作品一样，用产生种族问题的种族分类视角来阐述并试图解决种族问题，固步自封且把问题卡在十分尴尬的处境。也想这些作品一样，唯一的价值就是触及所讨论问题的一些皮毛。
1 有用 iwjdjxj 2021-03-04 21:17:25
“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.”
1 有用 ZZ 2020-09-02 21:52:22
句句珠玑，铿锵有力。最可贵的是表达清晰。
2 有用 Sileni 2020-12-31 00:54:35
Sociology intro课读物，第一次读黑人女性社会学家的书，关于黑人、穷人、女性在各个方面受到的系统性压迫. McMillan Cottom的写作能力很强，娓娓又有力。对Know Your Whites和In the Name of Beauty印象深刻，了解这个体制就是对它彻底绝望么…
0 有用 Rob 2021-01-28 14:30:05
非常喜欢 in the name of beauty 那篇