Tag archives: social justice

Thick: And Other Essays

by Tressie McMillan Cottom

★★★★★

Posted byauthor2019 February 12020 April 27Posted in★★★★★, readTags: favourites, memoir, nonfiction, social justice

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

by Austin Channing Brown

While I didn’t connect with the Christian elements, Austin Channing Brown’s essays are concise and stunningly reaffirming in naming and cutting to the core of white supremacy and the structures of racism.

Posted byauthor2019 January 242020 April 21Posted in★★★★½, notes, readTags: memoir, nonfiction, social justice

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

by Tanya Talaga

★★★★½

Posted byauthor2018 December 42020 April 28Posted in★★★★½, readTags: indigenous, nonfiction, social justice

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race

by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Above moments of distractingly patchy writing, this is an important work on Black British history and discourse on racism and oppressive structures in Britain and beyond.

Posted byauthor2018 November 102020 April 21Posted in★★★½, notes, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

by Robin DiAngelo

★★★★½

Posted byauthor2018 October 192020 April 28Posted in★★★★½, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

Nobody Knows My Name

by James Baldwin

★★★★½

Posted byauthor2018 August 32020 April 29Posted in★★★★½, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

by Brittney Cooper

At the side of the central subjects, I identified so much with Brittney’s realisation of and being reconciled to her interpersonal skills and social aura.