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Author Robinson, Phoebe.

Title You can't touch my hair : and other things I still have to explain / Phoebe Robinson.

Publication Info. New York : Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2016.
©2016
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1772881~S1
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 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO ROBINSON    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Biography  BIO ROBINSON    AVAILABLE
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Description xxxii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Summary Offers humorous, poignant essays describing her experience as a black woman in modern America, covering such topics as how she's been questioned over her love of U2 and why you can't touch her hair.
Contents 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.
Subject Robinson, Phoebe.
Robinson, Phoebe -- Humor.
African American women comedians -- Biography.
Television comedy writers -- Biography.
Genre Autobiographies.
Humor.
Added Title You cannot touch my hair
ISBN 9780143129202 (pbk.)
0143129201 (pbk.)
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