Ripe : essays / Negesti Kaudo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaudo, Negesti, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

21st century essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kaudo, Negesti.

African American women--Social conditions.

African American women.

African American women--Social life and customs.

Racism.

African Americans in popular culture.

White people--Race identity.

White people.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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

Seed

What Will Follow

Self-Portrait From the Coroner's Table

Ripe

Contemplating God

Reclaiming a Name.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780814258187

0814258182

OCLC:

1275427875