Via Kiese Laymon. Heavy: An American Memoir Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction, LA Times Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and Audible’s Audiobook of the Year, HEAVY was also named one of the Best Books of 2018 by the The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Library Journal , The Washington Post , Southern Living , Entertainment … Read More
Via Google Books. Black Feminist Thought Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment By Patricia Hill Collins In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She not only provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black … Read More
Via Haymarket Books. Haymarket Books “Racial Capitalism: A Reading List” Haymarket Books “Racial Capitalism: A Reading List” In the midst of an international pandemic and an economic crisis, a powerful anti-racist movement has spread across the world, demanding the defunding, disarming, and abolition of police and, in many cases, situating those aims in a critique … Read More
Via The New York Times. An Antiracist Reading List Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage. By Ibram X. Kendi No one becomes “not racist,” despite a tendency by Americans to identify themselves that way. We can only strive to be “antiracist” on a daily basis, to continually rededicate ourselves to … Read More
Via Haymarket Books. Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States Edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan PriceForeword by Alicia Garza Explores the reality of US police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous communities. What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police … Read More
Via NYU Press. White Kids In Critical Perspectives on Youth by Margaret A. Hagerman Published by: NYU Press Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Riveting stories of how affluent, … Read More
