You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain
By: Phoebe Robinson
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780143129202
Subjects: Television comedy writers; Humor; Biography; African American women comedians
Other titles: You cannot touch my hair and other things I still have to explain
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Plume book."
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: From Little Rock Nine to nappy hair, don't care in eighteen & half-ish years; title: A brief history of black hair in film, TV, music, & media; title: My nine favorite not-so-guilty pleasures; title: Welcome to being black; title: Dear future female president: my list of demands; title: How to avoid being the black friend; title: Uppity; title: Casting calls for people of color that were not written by people of color; title: The angry black woman myth; title: People, places, & things that need to do better; title: Letters to Olivia.