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

Author

Phoebe Robinson

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.