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What’s it about?
A Black sociologist uses her own life to diagnose America's intersecting systems of racism, sexism, and capitalism, refusing to make her experience palatable.
You’ll learn
- How Black women's bodies reveal societal pathologies
- The trap of respectability politics
- Why beauty standards are about power
- The invisibility of Black women in police violence