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

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

Language

eng

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Main title

You can't touch my hair

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Responsibility statement

Phoebe Robinson

Sub title

and other things I still have to explain

Summary

Offers humorous, poignant essays describing her experience as a black woman in modern America, covering such topics as how she's been questioned over her love of U2 and why you can't touch her hair

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 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

Target audience

adult

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You can not touch my hair

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