Ripe by Negesti Kaudo
A deeply intimate meditation on millennial Black womanhood and a righteous indictment of how this country treats Black girls and women. --Kirkus (starred review) A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022 Emotional range without consequence, Negesti Kaudo writes in her debut collection, Ripe, is a privilege of whiteness. In these essays, she fights back, exhorting readers to follow her through fury, grief, love, and hope as she confronts what it means to own her Blackness and her body in contemporary America. A scathing and nuanced cultural critic, she disentangles intersections of race, class, pop culture, size, sexuality, and more in spaces where she always seems to be either too Black or not Black enough. From attending private school as a poor Black student to the evolution of her hair routine to being fat and sexual when society says she should be neither, Kaudo overlooks nothing as she names the ways that white America simultaneously denigrates and steals Black culture. Most of all, she writes against the idea that a Black woman's anger makes her an angry Black woman, claiming full emotional range as her birthright and as a tool against injustice on her quest to find herself no matter how uncomfortable the journey.-
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
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The Trouble with Men
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On Our Way Home from the Revolution
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Night Mother
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The Hunger Book
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My Private Lennon
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Secrets of the Sun
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City of Toys
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Men I Hate
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Hummingbirds Between the Pages
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Twenty Square Feet of Skin
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Everything I Never Wanted to Know
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Art for the Ladylike
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When the World Explodes
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This One Will Hurt You
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Fear Icons
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A Mother's Tale
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Through a Long Absence
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Don't Come Back
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Warhol's Mother's Pantry
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Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing
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Engine Running
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Supremely Tiny Acts
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Don't Look Now
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Echo's Fugue
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Dark Tourist
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The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here
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You, Me, and the Violence
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Sustainability
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Love's Long Line
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Curiouser and Curiouser
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Mistaken for an Empire
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The Real Life of the Parthenon
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780814258187 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814258182 |
| Title | Ripe |
| Author | Negesti Kaudo |
| Series | 21st Century Essays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mad Creek Books |
| Year published | 2022-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |