The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Release on 2016-07-12 | by Issa Rae

An introvert braves the cybersex, the pitfalls of eating out alone, the difficulties of weight gain, and other hurdles faced by shy people living in a world that urges us to be cool as "J" humorously recounts her life in all its awkward ...

Author: Issa Rae
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781476749075
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 224
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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

"A collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and Black as cool ... [from] Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Award-winning ... series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl"--

Language: en
Pages: 224

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Authors: Issa Rae

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-12 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Language: en
Pages: 248

Don't Knock the Hustle

Authors: Craig S. Watkins

Categories: Business & Economics

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

How millennials are changing our ideas about work, the "gig economy", social mobility, opportunity and technology Millennials are coming of age at a time when work is temporary, underpaid, incommensurate with their education, or downright unsatisfying. Despite these challenges, media scholar S. Craig Watkins argues that this moment of precarity

Language: en
Pages: 432

How to Watch Television, Second Edition

Authors: Ethan Thompson, Jason Mittell

Categories: Performing Arts

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-31 - Publisher: NYU Press

A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the present We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it “good” or “bad.” Rather,

Language: en
Pages: 256

Girl Gurl Grrrl

Authors: Kenya Hunt

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-08 - Publisher: HarperCollins

“One of the year’s must-reads.” –ELLE “[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.” –GLAMOUR “Essential, vital, and urgent.” –HARPER’S BAZAAR In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, but wholly its own, a provocative, humorous, and, at times, heartbreaking collection of

Language: en
Pages: 242

Black Female Sexualities

Authors: Trimiko Melancon, Joanne M. Braxton

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-26 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and sexualities have been the subject of countless public discourses, black women’s voices have been