You can't touch my hair : and other things I still have to explain
by Robinson, Phoebe (Author)
Summary
"Being a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day. Comedian Phoebe Robinson has experienced her fair share over the years: she's been unceremoniously relegated to the role of "the black friend," as if she is somehow the authority on all things racia... Full description
- 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 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.