We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. She'd never have …
I've enjoyed everything I've read from Nalo Hopkinson including this novel. I'm still trying to figure out everything that happened at the end though. I've finished reading the book but in a sense I'm not finished with the story.
So many people reference Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, so many people talk of its influence, that I had to read it. And it didn't disappoint. Fanon's analysis of colonial and post-colonial dynamics is so sharp, so enlightening. He repositioned the frames to show us a different view of the world. I'm still absorbing it, but I'm asking myself what it teaches us about our current struggles against oppression.
When reading, I skipped the 62 pages of introductory material that other people wrote and went directly to Fanon's first chapter. Then after finishing Fanon's text, I went back to read the bits at the beginning I had skipped.
Cornel West adds a relatively brief and insightful introduction to this edition, summarizing the importance of the work, putting it in context, and relating it to our present time. Exactly the sort of thing I'd expect from an introduction.
This …
So many people reference Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, so many people talk of its influence, that I had to read it. And it didn't disappoint. Fanon's analysis of colonial and post-colonial dynamics is so sharp, so enlightening. He repositioned the frames to show us a different view of the world. I'm still absorbing it, but I'm asking myself what it teaches us about our current struggles against oppression.
When reading, I skipped the 62 pages of introductory material that other people wrote and went directly to Fanon's first chapter. Then after finishing Fanon's text, I went back to read the bits at the beginning I had skipped.
Cornel West adds a relatively brief and insightful introduction to this edition, summarizing the importance of the work, putting it in context, and relating it to our present time. Exactly the sort of thing I'd expect from an introduction.
This is followed by a 34 page foreword by Homi K. Bhabha from 2004. It's well worth reading after you've finished the book. A great analysis of the work.
Finally, Jean-Paul Sartre's original preface from 1961 is a 20 page denouncement of Europe, riffing off of Fanon's work but really it just feels like Sartre doing his own thing. I can't quite explain why Sartre's preface feels less connected to Fanon's work than Bhabha's forward, but that's how I took it.
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis …
It’s a collection of Angela Davis interviews and speeches between 2013 and 2015. As a result, there are topics that get covered several times. Nevertheless, it’s difficult for me to get bored from Davis’s words, so the repetition never bothered me. Davis’s perspective is just the sort of inspiration I need in these times.
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles …
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles …
Learn about Kittie Knox and the early history of cycling in the US
5 stars
This thoroughly researched zine paints a fascinating portrait of Kittie Knox, a firebrand and an advocate for change in the early days of cycling. It explores her complicated relationship with the main cycling organization of her time, the League of American Wheelmen (today the League of American Bicyclists). And it describes her legacy, and how many of the issues of her day are still relevant today.