Thick exemplifies how first-person experience can be a rich source for data analysis and empirical research. Cottom articulates how oppression is understood and interpreted differently. We learn in Thick how Black women from various class backgrounds experience and counteract racism. By taking on a Black feminist “outsider within” stance, she makes a bridge between her experience and academic research by situating herself as the subject of interrogation. The metaphor, Thick, unpacks the heterogeneity in Blackness and ethnicity which are often pathologized or neglected in the literature.
What does it mean to be a problem for Black women and girls in a color-blind and “post-racial” society? Public sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom’s tour de force, Thick: And Other Essays, is a prism through which we can understand social issues that plague Black women and children today.
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