![]() Much like we interrogate what a woman was wearing when she was raped, we look for ways to assign personal responsibility for structural injustices to bodies we collectively do not value. We tend to move quickly from being outraged that it happened to critiquing why a black person was shopping there at all. The Reading ListĮxcerpt from “Thick” by Tressie McMillan CottomĮvery time there is a national news story about a black shopper harassed in a store, there is a predictable backlash to the miscarriage of justice. Author of “Thick: And Other Essays,” a collection exploring the identity and experience that defines black womanhood in America. Tressie McMillan Cottom, writer, columnist, and professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. ![]()
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