Thick: And Other Essays
E931187
Thick: And Other Essays is a critically acclaimed collection of essays by sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom that explores race, gender, class, and power in contemporary America through sharp cultural critique and personal narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thick: And Other Essays canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11532250 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thick: And Other Essays Context triple: [Tressie McMillan Cottom, notableWork, Thick: And Other Essays]
-
A.
Surviving and Other Essays
Surviving and Other Essays is a collection of psychological and autobiographical essays by Bruno Bettelheim reflecting on trauma, survival, and the human condition.
-
B.
Less Than One: Selected Essays
Less Than One: Selected Essays is a celebrated collection of autobiographical and literary essays by Nobel Prize–winning poet Joseph Brodsky, reflecting on exile, Russian literature, and the moral responsibilities of the writer.
-
C.
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic is a reflective collection of early pastoral journals and theological insights by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
-
D.
Oneself as Another
"Oneself as Another" is a major philosophical work by Paul Ricoeur that explores personal identity, selfhood, and ethics through the lens of narrative and hermeneutic phenomenology.
-
E.
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Letters to a Young Contrarian is a book by Christopher Hitchens that offers guidance on independent thinking, skepticism, and principled dissent through a series of reflective essays.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thick: And Other Essays Target entity description: Thick: And Other Essays is a critically acclaimed collection of essays by sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom that explores race, gender, class, and power in contemporary America through sharp cultural critique and personal narrative.
-
A.
Surviving and Other Essays
Surviving and Other Essays is a collection of psychological and autobiographical essays by Bruno Bettelheim reflecting on trauma, survival, and the human condition.
-
B.
Less Than One: Selected Essays
Less Than One: Selected Essays is a celebrated collection of autobiographical and literary essays by Nobel Prize–winning poet Joseph Brodsky, reflecting on exile, Russian literature, and the moral responsibilities of the writer.
-
C.
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic is a reflective collection of early pastoral journals and theological insights by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
-
D.
Oneself as Another
"Oneself as Another" is a major philosophical work by Paul Ricoeur that explores personal identity, selfhood, and ethics through the lens of narrative and hermeneutic phenomenology.
-
E.
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Letters to a Young Contrarian is a book by Christopher Hitchens that offers guidance on independent thinking, skepticism, and principled dissent through a series of reflective essays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay collection
ⓘ
non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Tressie McMillan Cottom ⓘ |
| awarded |
Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize for Nonfiction
ⓘ
linked to:
Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction ⓘ National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist ⓘ
linked to:
National Book Award finalist
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| explores |
academic labor
ⓘ
beauty politics ⓘ consumer culture ⓘ digital culture ⓘ intersectionality ⓘ structural racism ⓘ |
| field |
Black studies
ⓘ
gender studies ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| genre |
cultural criticism
ⓘ
essays ⓘ feminist non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
Black feminist
ⓘ
critical race ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | essay ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Black womanhood
ⓘ
class ⓘ culture ⓘ gender ⓘ higher education ⓘ inequality ⓘ power structures ⓘ race in the United States ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
personal narrative
ⓘ
sociological analysis ⓘ |
| notableEssay |
Black Is Over (Or, Special Black)
ⓘ
Dying to be Competent ⓘ Girl 6 ⓘ In the Name of Beauty ⓘ Know Your Whites ⓘ Thick ⓘ
linked to:
Thick (song)
|
| praisedFor |
blend of theory and personal experience
ⓘ
intellectual rigor ⓘ sharp cultural critique ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| publisher | The New Press ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general adult readers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Thick: And Other Essays Description of subject: Thick: And Other Essays is a critically acclaimed collection of essays by sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom that explores race, gender, class, and power in contemporary America through sharp cultural critique and personal narrative.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.