An edition of You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain
(2016)
You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain
by Phoebe Robinson
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A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson.
Being a Black woman in American 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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Television comedy writers, Humor, Biography, African American women comedians, Comedians, united states, Comedians, biography, Humor, form, essays, Women, united states, biography, African americans, biography, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2016-10-23, New York Times bestseller, Nonfiction, Essays, Humor (Nonfiction), Sociology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HUMOR / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, HUMOR / Form / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American StudiesPeople
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You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain
2016
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0143129201 9780143129202
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Table of 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, & 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.
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"A Plume book."
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