Ripe : essays / Negesti Kaudo.
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- 9780814258187
- 0814258182
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Main Library | NonFiction | 305.4889 K21 | Available | 33111010821011 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A deeply intimate meditation on millennial Black womanhood and a righteous indictment of how this country treats Black girls and women." -- Kirkus (starred review)
A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022
"Emotional range without consequence," Negesti Kaudo writes in her debut collection, Ripe , is a privilege of whiteness. In these essays, she fights back, exhorting readers to follow her through fury, grief, love, and hope as she confronts what it means to own her Blackness and her body in contemporary America. A scathing and nuanced cultural critic, she disentangles intersections of race, class, pop culture, size, sexuality, and more in spaces where she always seems to be either too Black or not Black enough. From attending private school as a poor Black student to the evolution of her hair routine to being fat and sexual when society says she should be neither, Kaudo overlooks nothing as she names the ways that white America simultaneously denigrates and steals Black culture. Most of all, she writes against the idea that a Black woman's anger makes her an "angry Black woman," claiming full emotional range as her birthright and as a tool against injustice on her quest to find herself no matter how uncomfortable the journey.
"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"-- Provided by publisher
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.