


The second book, entitled THE VIVIAN, will be a searing memoir that explores contemporary Black motherhood through the lens of McMillan Cottom's own experiences with her mother and draws upon the history of the Jim Crow south, the post-civil rights movement, and America's foundational brutality towards Black mothers.ĭr. The first book, BASIC, will be a paradigm-shifting exploration of how white identity is created, commodified, and disseminated as a dominant cultural, economic, and political force via hidden-in-plain-sight forms of status seeking. Executive Vice President and Associate Publisher Kate Medina and Vice President and Executive Editor Jamia Wilson acquired North American and audio rights at auction from Dorian Karchmar at WME. Tressie McMillan Cottom, MacArthur Fellow and bestselling author of THICK, a National Book Award finalist for nonfiction, is writing two new books for Random House.
