The 2021 Memphis Reads selection is Tressie McMillan Cottom's Thick: And Other Essays.
Incoming first year students will receive a copy of the book at orientation. If you have received your CBU student login credentials, you can view the ebook version online.
Thick by 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.Tressie McMillan Cottom will speak at CBU on October 13 and Rhodes College on October 14. More details to come!
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