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Radical Reads for 2017
We're entering a new era (or at least, an era where prejudices and hatred are getting more public support from the establishment), and hopefully these books will broaden your ideas and understanding of race, class and sexuality in America.
I haven't added these books in any particular order, so please vote and add as you see fit. Try to access these through your local, independent bookseller (http://slingshot.tao.ca/contacts/) or library!
Thanks to the following resources for inspiration:
A Time for Treason: http://thenewinquiry.com/features/a-t...
Radical Political Action Reading List: http://bostonreview.net/editors-picks...
Book List for the New Future: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l...
Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B...
Tim Wise: http://www.timwise.org/reading-list/
I haven't added these books in any particular order, so please vote and add as you see fit. Try to access these through your local, independent bookseller (http://slingshot.tao.ca/contacts/) or library!
Thanks to the following resources for inspiration:
A Time for Treason: http://thenewinquiry.com/features/a-t...
Radical Political Action Reading List: http://bostonreview.net/editors-picks...
Book List for the New Future: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l...
Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B...
Tim Wise: http://www.timwise.org/reading-list/
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Christian Nation
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It Can't Happen Here
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If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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My Real Children
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Assata: An Autobiography
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Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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The Complete Persepolis
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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
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Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor/Contributor)
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America at War with Itself
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Annihilation of Caste
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Sex and Sushi: Great Married Sex
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Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
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Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
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An Autobiography
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Queer: A Graphic History
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
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The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption
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Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
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Dayo F. Gore (Editor)
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities After 9/11
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The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online
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Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition
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A Promise and a Way Of Life: White Antiracist Activism
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Becky W. Thompson (Goodreads Author)
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The Wall Between
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Are Italians White?
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Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race
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White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism
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Ashley W. Doane (editor)
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Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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Kindred
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
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White Teeth
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Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
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All the Names
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
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Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
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The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
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Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power
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Jamie Vishwam Heckert (Editor)
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Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
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Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
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Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
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Michelle Tea (Editor)
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This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Editor)
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Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
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S/He
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
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Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
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Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
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The Underground Railroad
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Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America
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The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
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Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline
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Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America
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Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
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