Seen this graphic several times on social media. Which all ones have you read? What are the best? I've read Warmth of Other Suns (about Great Migration) and it's 10/10. New Jim Crow is near the top of my list to read soon
I’ve read Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Renni-Eddo Lodge and it was really good. She’s British and has a white mother so it was a unique perspective. I learned a lot and really enjoyed it.
new jim crow is great, white fragility and so you want to talk about race are important if you want to talk to people who are defensive about these things, Coates between the world and me I don't see there but is great i need to read more baldwin
Racecraft by Fields and Fields Invention of the White Race by Allen The Poorer Nations by Prashad Old lectures by Dick Fraser like: http://www.bolshevik.org/history/Fraser/Fraser01.html
Alexander is good Getting Tough by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann and American Babylon by Robert Self are both good as well if you're looking for a more historical perspective. Down, Out, and Under Arrest is a good ground-level examination of just how fundamentally broken community policing is
Demand for anti-racist literature is up. These black bookstore owners hope it lasts. Library and book sales data show how interest in anti-racist and social justice titles exploded after George Floyd’s death None of the books on the June 7 New York Times Best Sellers list, which was based on sales data from the week of Floyd’s death, were about race. Two weeks later, two-thirds were. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/black-owned-bookstores-anti-racist-literature/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-low_bookstores-1130a:homepage/story-ans&itid=hp_hp-banner-low_bookstores-1130a:homepage/story-ans
That’s something I need to learn more about. All I really know is the rage against the machine reference (“they ain’t gonna send us campin like they did my man fred hampton”)
This is TC (Thomas Cooper). I named myself after the library at UofSC because I like reading. They are thinking of changing the name of the library now because Thomas Cooper was an advocate of slavery at some points in his career. Richard Greener was the first black professor and librarian at USC. Cool move to name myself after him, or weird move for a white guy to have a Black avatar and name? Info about Greener: http://sc.edu/greener/?fbclid=IwAR0AGUOY9e_-D57XoiltGeL7xeMVL1681QbqRVf0CGO9nz-YLyfTx0zwefA Also on the subject of this thread, "Stamped from the Beginning" is amazing -- reading now.
Iron Mickey Lyrtch Truman i don’t know how to explain this but here it goes. My wife wants to read something to help her understand CRT better to be able to teach it and explain it to her students better. What’s a good succinct book(s) she can read over the next week or so before she returns to work? TIA
I haven’t read anything on the actual theory but I’ll suggest . The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone, by Heather McGhee She uses some CRT principles to show how laws that have fucked black people end up fucking everyone. A lot of good real life examples that I would imagine could be good vehicles to explain to her students. I have an e-copy i can send if you want.
CRT is a super specific thing that you really mostly see in law schools, which makes the right's obsession with it really funny best race books I've read are Racecraft by Fields and Fields and the Invention of the White Race by Allen