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

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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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English
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285

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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."

Other Titles
You cannot touch my hair and other things I still have to explain

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792.7/6028092, B
Library of Congress
PN2287.R715 A3 2016, PN2287.R715A3 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxii, 285 pages
Number of pages
285

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26882199M
Internet Archive
youcanttouchmyha0000robi
ISBN 10
0143129201
ISBN 13
9780143129202
LCCN
2016018322
OCLC/WorldCat
945352996, 959614616

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