You Get What You Pay for : Essays
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New York, NY : One World, 2024.
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Book
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211 pages ; 21 cm
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Meadville Public Library
305.896 Parker, Morgan
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305.896 Parker, Morgan
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New York, NY : One World, 2024.
Language
English
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Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and writer Morgan Parker has spent much of her adulthood in therapy, trying to square the resonance of her writing with the alienation she feels in nearly every aspect of life, from her lifelong singleness to a battle with depression. She traces this loneliness to an inability to feel truly safe with others and a historic hyperawareness stemming from the effects of slavery.
In a collection of essays as intimate as being in the room with Parker and her therapist, Parker examines America’s cultural history and relationship to Black Americans through the ages. She touches on such topics as the ubiquity of beauty standards that exclude Black women, the implications of Bill Cosby’s fall from grace in a culture predicated on acceptance through respectability, and the pitfalls of visibility as seen through the mischaracterizations of Serena Williams as alternately iconic and too ambitious.
With piercing wit and incisive observations, You Get What You Pay For is ultimately a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness and its effects on mental well-being in America today. Weaving unflinching criticism with intimate anecdotes, this devastating memoir-in-essays paints a portrait of one Black woman’s psyche—and of the writer’s search to both tell the truth and deconstruct it.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Parker, M. (2024). You Get What You Pay for: Essays . One World.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Parker, Morgan. 2024. You Get What You Pay For: Essays. One World.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Parker, Morgan. You Get What You Pay For: Essays One World, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Parker, Morgan. You Get What You Pay For: Essays One World, 2024.
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