Interview | Tressie McMillan Cottom

The New Press, 2019

Autumn and Kendra talk with Tressie McMillan Cottom about her new book Thick: And Other Essays, which is out now from The New Press.

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Books Mentioned

• Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Tressie Recommends

• Invisible Visits: Black Middle-Class Women in the American Healthcare System by Tina K. Sacks

• Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay

• This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins

• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

• Electric Arches by Eve Ewing

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

• The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis

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Author Bio

Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is digital sociologist, professor, writer and columnist. She has spoken across the nation and the world on technology, higher education, race, gender, class, and social inequality. Audiences and readers connect with her ability to make complex ideas relatable. Her latest book, Thick, draws on ten years of writing for the public on many of our society’s most pressing fault lines. It joins her other books, including the acclaimed Lower Ed, in a genre-busting academic career that spans public policy to cultural critique. She lives in Richmond, Virginia where she is a professor.

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