List of things I've read (or am in process of reading) this summer that have impacted the way I've think, which has impacted the way I see Chicago, black liberation, and food and agriculture. And few words on these books.
- The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs (galvanizer for activists, visionaries)
- Salvation; Black People and Love by bell hooks (importance liberation in love)
- Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks (story black ppl connection land, environment, more)
- No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein (resist shock politics and uniting of various movements)
- From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (title says all)
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (housing policy deeply affected African-Americans)
- An Autobiography by Angela Davis (insight into rise of one of my intellectual and activist heroes)
- Black Radical Tradition, collection of works, phenomenal and great base for anyone interested in learning about crucial black figures (http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/BlackRadicalTradition.pdf)
- Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis (intersectionality, black women...)
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty (black guy in Cali who segregates school and owns slave... read it)
Feel free to enjoy some of the book quotes below as well.
Comment any additions I should add to my list.
“Our relationship to the earth is radical: it lies at the root of our consciousness and our culture and of any sense of a rich life and right livelihood.”
“Most black people live in ways that threaten to shorten our life, eating fast foods, suffering from illnesses that could be prevented with proper exercise and nutrition.”
“We must all decolonize our minds in Western culture to be able to think differently about nature, about the destruction of human cause.”
“Many of our national problems either originate with residential segregation or have become intractable because of it.”
“Such exploitation was possible only because public policy denied African Americans opportunities to participate in the city’s white housing market.”
“The Justice Department’s investigation of Ferguson, Missouri, police practices found that African Americans were stopped by police more frequently than whites, but of those who were stopped and searched, more whites were found to be carrying illegal drugs than African Americans. If police wanted to increase their chances of finding drugs, they would be better off conducting “stop and frisk” operations in white than in black neighborhoods.”