by Louise Erdrich
★★★★
Monthly archives: July 2020
Friday Black
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Uneven, from distasteful sympathies (the anti-abortion Lark Street and the entitled white male murderer redemption story Light Spitter) to scintillating acuity
The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
by Malcolm X
I didn’t expect so much patronising flattery and unscientific claptrap in the opening speech. Very little of this collection is agelessly thundering in exposing the crimes of imperialism, the prison walls of America, and the artifice of white liberal allyship.
Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France
by Crystal Marie Fleming
This is a dissertation work on collective memory and commemorative activism. Although there are stretches of empirical research to wade through, it is fortunately also explicitly polemical. France is not unique as a country that refuses to acknowledge racial oppression (unless it’s in America or unless it’s … Read more
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
by Robyn Maynard
A comprehensive dissection of anti-Black racism across history, in Canada, and across all borders. If repetitious it’s as a direct reflection of unrelenting anti-Black demonisation, surveillance, containment, and violence in all our societal structures. Policing Black Lives is intersectional, potently researched, and crystal clear.
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
★★★½
Delayed Rays of a Star
by Amanda Lee Koe
★★★★