What's on my Reading Stack?
A New Origin Story: The 1619 Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
“The book speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. It reveals long-glossed-over truths around our nation's founding and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation but continues to shape modern American life.”
“The book speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. It reveals long-glossed-over truths around our nation's founding and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation but continues to shape modern American life.”
The Matter of Black Lives, Edited by Jelani Cobb & David Remnick
“This is not an anthology about race. It is a collection about a broad, fascinating set of events and the people who are most commonly tasked with confronting it. The American future is precisely as bright or as dark as our capacity to grapple with this enduring concern. This collection is a chronicle of at least part of our past and a lens to help envision a better American future.”
“This is not an anthology about race. It is a collection about a broad, fascinating set of events and the people who are most commonly tasked with confronting it. The American future is precisely as bright or as dark as our capacity to grapple with this enduring concern. This collection is a chronicle of at least part of our past and a lens to help envision a better American future.”
A Field Guide to White Supremacy, Kathleen Belew
"...illuminates the career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and impacted groups. This is an urgent resource...illuminating common threads in white supremacist actions at every scale, from hate crimes and mass attacks to policy and law. Covering immigration, antisemitism, gendered violence, lynching, and organized domestic terrorism, the authors reveal white supremacy as a motivating force in manifold parts of American life." |
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, Kyle T. Mays
“This groundbreaking history argues that the foundations of the United States are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue well into the present. ...explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American Struggle for sovereignty, beginning pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism” |
How Long 'Til Black Future Month? N. K. Jemisin “N.K Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her short fiction, which includes several never-before-seen stories. Jemisin equally challenges and delights with narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.” 
Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States, Robert L. Allen and Chude Pamela Allen
“...explores the centrality of racism in America's major democratic and social justice movements between the early nineteenth century and the end of World War II. It focuses on the abolitionists, the Populist Party, the Progressive reformers, and the women's suffrage, labor, and socialist and community movements. Despite their achievements, virtually all these predominately white movements capitulated to racism at critical junctures in their history. Their efforts to the contrary were undercut by an inability to build a mass movement of both Black and white Americans” |
What's up with White Women?: Unpacking Sexism and White Privilege in Pursuit of Racial Justice, Ilsa Govan & Tilman Smith
“Blending real-life stories, theory, and anti-racism practices...it is a practical guide for white women who are interested in becoming more effective in their cross-cultural, anti-racist work. The authors invite white women to understand their gendered role in systemic racism and their unique opportunity for action” 
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, adrienne maree brown
“Facilitation and mediation skills are important for both individuals and organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend generating the ease necessary to help us move through life's inevitable struggles? How do we practice holding others without losing ourselves? Black feminists have answers to these questions that can serve anyone working to create changes in our world, great and small.” |