Previous thread is over here.
I forgot to update this yesterday since I was at work.
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about, well, anything, ig.
Bonus discussion question:
What are your favorite books about BIPOC and EM people?
Could be about individuals, a few individuals, or a social history (or, well, everything having to do with EM_BIPOC peoples).
Mine is kind of a “basic opinion” but it’s:
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Read it right when it came out.
And I knew it was going to be a “classic” (or, at least, on many peoples’ “to-read” lists).
Of course, I’m an obscurist, sort-of. I recommend more obscure works, but this one really stood out to me back when it first came out. I had a professor that also recommended the book and had us all read it in class. I believe they were Apache.
On the topic of “obscure” works, I would recommend Henry Winston’s Strategy for a Black Agenda, which is my favorite work on such topics as Pan-Africanism and violence vs. non-violence (and whether and how to use both or when).
Anyway, take care!
To be honest, Henry Winston’s work has a few antiquated or unpopular opinions, such as in regard to “Maoist China.”
But that’s kinda what I like about it. Either way, you’ll come away from it with a new perspective.
Tagging people from the previous thread. Enjoy!
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Also, remember: you don’t have to do the bonus question if you don’t want to.
Cheers!
On the topic of “obscure” works, I would recommend Henry Winston’s Strategy for a Black Agenda, which is my favorite work on such topics as Pan-Africanism and violence vs. non-violence (and whether and how to use both or when).
YES YES YES YES. Big rec here, also “We Will Shoot Back”, by Akinyele Omowale Umoja.
It’s on my org’s current reading list, Strategy is. I think I got in too late for their reading circle on We Will Shoot Back, I’ve been making headway through that between my coursework this semester
I love that book and its sequel and, since I’m apart of the CPUSA, I have a healthy respect for Henry Winston already, who helped start NAARPR and NAIMSAL.
(NAIMSAL especially helped spear-head the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S., pressing for sanctions on South Africa, which eventually did happen, over its apartheid system.)
My 9 day vacation just started. Feels good.
