You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain / Phoebe Robinson.
A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson.
Being a Black woman in American means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities. Robinson uses her trademark wit to explore examine our cultural climate and skewer our biases with humor and heart.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143129202
- ISBN: 0143129201
- Physical Description: xxxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Plume, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 not-so-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. |
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Subject: | Robinson, Phoebe. Robinson, Phoebe > Humor. African American women comedians > Biography. Television comedy writers > United States > Biography. |
Genre: | Autobiographies. Humor. Essays. |
Available copies
- 13 of 14 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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Cambria County Library | 792.7602 R663y (Text) | 85131001696500 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Dalton Community Library | 792.7 ROBINSO (Text) | 50689010407863 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Gettysburg Library | BIOG ROBI-P (Text) | 35740635081151 | Biography | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | 817.6 Robinson Humor (Text) | 39427103168712 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults 792.7 ROB Arts Literature (Text) | 33454005309620 | 2nd Floor | Available | - |
New Castle Public Library | Biog. Robinson (Text)
Bookplate:
From the Library of Vivian Davidson Hewitt.
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31902005495999 | NWCM Biography | In Process | - |
Parkland Community Library | 792.76 ROB (Text) | 34422007034834 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Reading Public Library RPL - Main | 792.76028092 Rob (Text) | 33223008058082 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Sinking Spring Library | 792.76 ROB (Text) | 33249021831700 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Allentown Public Library | 792.7 ROBI (Text) | 34455006269464 | Adult Nonfiction 1st FL | Available | - |