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You can't touch my hair : and other things I still have to explain / Phoebe Robinson.
Van Pelt Library PN2287.R715 A3 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Phoebe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robinson, Phoebe.
- Robinson, Phoebe--Humor.
- African American women comedians--Biography.
- African American women comedians.
- Television comedy writers--United States--Biography.
- Television comedy writers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Humor.
- Essays.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- You can not touch my hair
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Plume Book, 2016.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Cover design by Rachel Willey. Cover photograph © Mindy Tucker.
- Forward by Jessica Williams.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 9780143129202
- 0143129201
- OCLC:
- 945352996
- Online:
- http://www.phoeberobinson
- http://www.penguin.com
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