The Root: What books are you reading right now?

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im about to start black jacobins. have had it sitting on my hard drive for damn near a year.

gonna figure out a way to get it on my ipad then i'll be cooking
God-tier read, one of my personal favorites next to Black Reconstruction in America by. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Wretched of the Earth by. Frantz Fanon, Debt: The First 5000 Years, and Capital by. Karl Marx.
 

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...it was under our unofficial "1st Black President Bill Clinton" when the prison system boomed in the 90s:lupe::mjpls::patrice::francis:
If you have the time, I would highly recommend Carceral Capitalism by. Jackie Wang and Golden Gulag by. Ruth Wilson Gilmore to supplement this.

I used to work for Michelle Alexander in law school, and while she is absolutely brilliant, there is a wide body of research outside of her book that has gone substantially further.

They're also great reads/
 
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