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Don't let it get you down : essays on race, gender, and the body

Nolan, Savala2022
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Savala Nolan knows what it means to live in the in-between. Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Nolan's mixed-race identity is obvious, for better and worse. At her mother's encouragement, she began her first diet at the age of three and has been both fat and painfully thin throughout her life. She has experienced both the discomfort of generational poverty and the ease of wealth and privilege. It is these liminal spaces-of race, class, and body type-that the essays in Don't Let It Get You Down excavate, presenting a clear and nuanced understanding of our society's most intractable points of tension.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Indigo Press, 2022.©2021
Collation:
195 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
On dating white guys while meWhite dollDear white sisterBad educationTo wit, and alsoStateNearly, note quiteOn the sources of cultural identityBody enduresFat in ways white girls don't understandLittle Satin bomber body.
ISBN:
9781911648437 (pbk)9781911648437 (paperback)
Dewey class:
305.420973305.42
Language:
English
BRN:
745910
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
City Library-SocietySOCIETY 305.42 NOLAAvailable
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