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Ripe : essays /

"Essays at the intersection of race, sexuality, and pop culture that confront Kaudo's experience as a Black woman and ask what it means to own one's Blackness when contemporary white America simultaneously denigrates and appropriates Black culture"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaudo, Negesti (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
Series:21st century essays.
Subjects:
Kaudo, Negesti.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women > Social life and customs.
Racism.
African Americans in popular culture.
White people > Race identity.
Noires américaines > Conditions sociales.
Noires américaines > Mœurs et coutumes.
Racisme.
Noirs américains dans la culture populaire.
Table of Contents:
  • Marginalia
  • Rind
  • Ether
  • How to Steal a Culture
  • Kings, Queens, and Warriors
  • Unbothered: A Microaggression
  • D'Homme Americain: How to Emulate a White Man
  • A Liberated Black Beauty
  • Bodies of Water
  • Nine Minutes
  • Marginalia
  • Flesh
  • Black Girl Sabbath
  • Me, My Fat, and I
  • Thunder Thighs
  • Messy: Brief Notes on Body Positivity
  • The One Where My Femme Swallows You Whole
  • The One Where My Femme Has a Punch
  • The One Where My Femme Looks in the Mirror
  • The One Where My Femme Brings You Back to Life
  • The One Where My Femme Swells
  • Interlude: The Part Thugs Skip
  • For Your Pleasure
  • Marginalia
  • Seed
  • What Will Follow
  • Self-Portrait From the Coroner's Table
  • Ripe
  • Contemplating God
  • Reclaiming a Name.