TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Phoebe
TI  - You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain
SN  - 9780143129202
AV  - PN2287.R715 A3 2016
U1  - 792.7/6028092B 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Plume
KW  - Robinson, Phoebe
KW  - African American women comedians
KW  - Biography
KW  - Television comedy writers
KW  - United States
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Humor
KW  - Essays
N1  - 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 not-so-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
N2  - A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson; Being a Black woman in American means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities. Robinson uses her trademark wit to explore examine our cultural climate and skewer our biases with humor and heart
ER  -