Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. One of today's most intrepid public intellectuals shares her smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more. In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom--award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed--is unapologetically "thick": deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where...