Previous thread is over here.
I forgot to update this yesterday since I was at work.
As usual: no crackers allowed.
Here, you can:
vent
chat
gush
inquire
etc.
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!
Web dubois’ black reconstruction and harry Haywood’s black Bolshevik are two ancient tombs full of unimaginable knowledge that the movement has yet to truly contend with
They’re great books.
Haywood’s book was a pain to hunt down when I first heard of it, can confirm it is a good book, need to read more Dubois.
Time to start using Z Library
When I first looked for it I couldn’t find it there and had to dl off archive.org’s library which took a good min, but I want to say this was well over a year ago.
Archive.org for books isn’t a bad bet though.
There’s always this, for example (Ismail’s archive):
https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou
Right. I forget what I was trying to check out now, it wasn’t related to theory, a translation of some ancient bronze age poetry book, but the only way to get the book was to check it out and the whole process was so glitchy.
Was it in Ismail’s archive?
Black Bolshevik no, idr where I found it on archive.org, I’ve long forgotten what the bronze age poetry book was even called, so don’t ask on that one, lol.
oh hahhahaha