
READING SPOTLIGHT
Mini-reviews on things that have sparked my thinking-
books, articles, zines, and more
FISH-INS & BLACK/NATIVE SOLIDARITY IN THE 1960S
Mariame Kaba’s zine highlights how Indigenous and Black people recognized connections between their struggles.
AS BLACK AS RESISTANCE: FINDING THE CONDITIONS FOR LIBERATION
Zoé Samudzi’s and William C. Anderson’s As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation is an important and accessible tool for contending with many contradictions in U.S. culture regarding rights, personhood, and democracy.
culture and imperialism
Edward W. Said’s Culture and Imperialism should be required reading.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
In Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman offers careful attention to the lives of early twentieth-century Black women, who society has cast as unimportant, deviant, menial, and forgettable.