![]() ![]() ![]() “In the Name of Beauty” makes the controversial case that a black woman cannot by definition be beautiful, because “beauty isn't actually what you look like beauty is the preferences that reproduce the existing social order. As a “black woman who thinks for a living,” the author describes herself as caught in the middle of some invisible battle, accused by one editor of being “too readable to be academic, too deep to be popular, too country black to be literary, and too naïve to show the rigor of my thinking in the complexity of my prose.” From this position-uncomfortable for her but stimulating for readers-McMillan Cottom takes aim at a range of targets. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, 2017, etc.) is clearly dedicated to including the whole range of her being, from the detached academic who rigorously footnotes each of the essays to the emotional first-person narrator of the experiences of sexual abuse and societal exclusion. These essays are distinguished by the fact that McMillan Cottom (Sociology/Virginia Commonwealth Univ. ![]() Sociology and personal experience blend in a concise collection of essays about contemporary black American women. ![]()
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