TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaudo,Negesti
TI  - Ripe: essays 
T2  - 21st century essays
SN  - 9780814258187
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Columbus
PB  - Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
KW  - Kaudo, Negesti.
KW  - African American women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Racism
KW  - African Americans in popular culture
KW  - White people
KW  - Race identity
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -