The Resource Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be : essays, Nichole Perkins
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be : essays, Nichole Perkins
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The item Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be : essays, Nichole Perkins represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
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- Summary
- "Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope--all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman. She explores her experience with mental illness and how the TV series Frasier served as a crutch, how her role as mistress led her to certain internet message boards that prepared her for current day social media, and what it means to figure out desire and sexuality and Prince in a world where marriage is the only acceptable goal for women. Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Nichole boldly tackles the damage done to women, especially Black women, by society's failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart, and her efforts to stop the various cycles that limit confidence within herself. By using her own life and loves as a unique vantage point, Nichole humorously and powerfully illuminates how to take the best pop culture has to offer and discard the harmful bits, offering a mirror into our own lives"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 263 pages
- Note
- Includes reading group guide discussion questions
- Isbn
- 9781538702741
- Label
- Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be : essays
- Title
- Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
- Title remainder
- essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Nichole Perkins
- Subject
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- truePopular culture
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- African American authors -- 21st century -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope--all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman. She explores her experience with mental illness and how the TV series Frasier served as a crutch, how her role as mistress led her to certain internet message boards that prepared her for current day social media, and what it means to figure out desire and sexuality and Prince in a world where marriage is the only acceptable goal for women. Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Nichole boldly tackles the damage done to women, especially Black women, by society's failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart, and her efforts to stop the various cycles that limit confidence within herself. By using her own life and loves as a unique vantage point, Nichole humorously and powerfully illuminates how to take the best pop culture has to offer and discard the harmful bits, offering a mirror into our own lives"--
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- contains biographical information
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- 11001326
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Perkins, Nichole
- Dewey number
- 810.9/896073
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3616.E7465
- LC item number
- Z46 2021
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Perkins, Nichole
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- essays
- Label
- Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be : essays, Nichole Perkins
- Note
- Includes reading group guide discussion questions
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- volume
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- text
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- Control code
- 2021010633
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9781538702741
- Lccn
- 2021010633
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1246677747
- Label
- Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be : essays, Nichole Perkins
- Note
- Includes reading group guide discussion questions
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2021010633
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9781538702741
- Lccn
- 2021010633
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1246677747
Subject
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Social conditions
- trueAfrican American women authors
- African American women authors -- 21st century -- Biography
- trueDesire
- Essays
- trueInternet
- trueMental illness
- Perkins, Nichole
- truePodcasters
- Podcasters -- United States -- Biography
- truePopular culture
- trueSexuality
- trueSocial media
- trueUnited States
- African American authors -- 21st century -- Biography
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