This post originally appeared on the personal website of Tressie McMillan Cottom. I once set out to write a book of southern aphorisms. It was going to be a serious treatment of (mostly) black (uniquely) southern “mother wit” as philosophy. Then, grad school and so on and so on. If I were to undertake a […]
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. She is the lead editor of Profit U: The Rise of For-Profit Higher Education, forthcoming from AERA books.