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This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women …
Beautiful. Fierce. And heart-wrenching at times, there's a lot of trauma covered here. Author is a trans POC.
This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roam—and where the distinctions between …
In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. …
It's a journalist telling the story of 20th century global colonialism as implemented by the CIA and US State department. We learn about the topic through stories about some of the people affected by the murderous programs. Stories based on interviews make the book more accessible than a more academic approach. So if the topic of neocolonialism is new to someone, this book would be a good entry point.
When the subtitle refers to an "anticommunist crusade" it seems to reinforce Washington's propaganda. I would have preferred the cover to name it accurately as "colonialism".
The book focuses on Southeast Asia and Latin America. Those are not the only places in the world where the CIA was active in disrupting local governments. I would have liked to see wider geographic coverage, but I suppose the journalistic approach taken by the author made that difficult to accomplish.
Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of …
Paints a picture of what life was like for queer and gender non conforming people in the 1960s – 1980s.
Not an easy read. Full of traumatic experiences including multiple instances of assault. I had tried to read it once before but I only got 3 chapters in and decided it wasn't good for my own mental well being to keep going. A few years later when I was feeling stronger I tried again and I'm glad I finally made it through.
Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then …
When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In …
A beautiful collection of short stories that paint pictures of the Haitian people. I love how many of the stories are interconnected in little ways. Most are connected in some way to the fictional Haitian town of Ville Rose, which also appears in other writing of Danticat.
When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak!, Edwidge Danticat establishes …
I learned a lot. The authors cover several events I hadn't heard of. The analysis is from an anarchist perspective.
SISTER MINE
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.
Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely …
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.
