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Book

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

Call Numbers

  • 921 R6636 (CEN)
  • 921 R6636 TEEN (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Plume, 2016.

Physical Description

xxxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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 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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