The Root: What books are you reading right now?
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Looting Machine by Tom Burgis, Africa gettin raped....
richmondGeek
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Recently read Certain People, which led me to:
@longhairedchef
groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in the prizewinning The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy.
groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in the prizewinning The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy.
@ab.aspectus ^^ I know that you like looking into the black elite circles
get these nets
Veteran
If you're a fan of Donald Goines / Chester Himes, you have to check this book out
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Ron Chernow - Alexander Hamilton
Theodore W. Allen - The Invention of the White Race: Volume I
Theodore W. Allen - The Invention of the White Race: Volume I
get these nets
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supposed to borrow a copy of Raised by Wolves tomorrow
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
This book, a compilation of short essays by Black British Men. Glad to see that some are organizing themselves to try to reclaim their space and voice. It's basically testimonies that focus on this or that aspect of being a Black Man in the UK, very rooted in everyday life, worth the read.
