In the distressingly discursive chapter on Beauty, Cottom declares her previous assertion of her ugliness as a means to opt out of the neoliberal, capitalist and necessarily white system validating a certain set of preferences "that compounds the oppression of sts money and demands money. "I have wanted to tell evocative stories that become a problem for power.Excluded as I am from the ethos, logos, and pathos of academia, literary arts, humanities, and Professional Smart People, I have had to appeal to every form of authority simultaneously in every single thing I have ever written." The assertion of her exclusion is egregiously disingenuous in view of the fact Cottom holds a tenured position at VCU and is a faculty associate at Harvard. I am smart in the right way, in the right time, on the right end of globalization." We learn of her Southern roots and relationship with academia: "Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one's abilities, one's environment, and one's moment in history. The titular chapter Thick contextualizes the author and her matrix. This book is a collection of eight essays on a variety of topics. This author's earlier book, Lower Ed, was so spot-on about for-profit (and pseudo-non-profit) educational institutions, their sales tactics, role in disadvantaged communities, and impact I recommended it far and wide.
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