If followed to its conclusion, Cottom’s argument threatens to bring down our academic house of cards.Ĭottom’s book is invaluable as a study of for-profit colleges. What Cottom calls “Lower Ed” is not a moral aberration but a response to terrible labor market conditions (the real problem) and a symptom of how ill-prepared we are to address them.
Every few pages offer counter-commonsense arguments with telescoping corollaries and implications. But don’t let her clarity of writing deceive you: Cottom’s work demands close reading and careful thinking. Tressie McMillan Cottom uses for-profit colleges to explain a much bigger story about contemporary patterns of inequality. Lower Ed is sociology at its best: it questions popular wisdom and provides a better explanation. She turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity, investigating everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies.Ĭollected in an indispensable volume that speaks to the everywoman and the erudite alike, these unforgettable essays never fail to be “painfully honest and gloriously affirming” and hold “a mirror to your soul and to that of America” (Dorothy Roberts).Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy This “transgressive, provocative, and brilliant” (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom’s position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the “personal essay” can do. Thick “transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women” (Los Angeles Review of Books) with “writing that is as deft as it is amusing” (Darnell L. In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom-award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed-is unapologetically “thick”: deemed “thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less,” McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work.
The New York Times Book Review Praise for Thick As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, these “incisive, witty, and provocative essays” (Publishers Weekly) by one of the “most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time” (Rebecca Traister), is now available at your local bookstore.
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