The joke was not on enslaved black women of yesteryear but … - Tressie McMillan Cottom

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The joke was not on enslaved black women of yesteryear but on the idea that it would take a totalizing system of enslavement to counter the structural violence that beauty does to Jones in her life today.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American writer, sociologist, and professor.

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