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: 242

Black Female Sexualities

Authors: Trimiko Melancon, Joanne M. Braxton

Categories: Psychology

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

Language: en
Pages: 288

The New Female Antihero

Authors: Sarah Hagelin, Gillian Silverman

Categories: Performing Arts

Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-21 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation:

Language: en
Pages: 114

The Evolution of Black Women in Television

Authors: Imani M. Cheers

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-20 - Publisher: Routledge

This book seeks to interrogate the representation of Black women in television. Cheers explores how the increase of Black women in media ownership and creative executive roles (producers, showrunners, directors and writers) in the last 30 years affected the fundamental cultural shift in Black women’s representation on television, which in