Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

A “brutal, beautifully rendered” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractable polar spaces-between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.

Savala Nolan knows what it means to live in the in-between. Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Nolan's mixed-race identity is obvious, for better and worse. At her mother's encouragement, she began her first die...