The Root: What books are you reading right now?

[mbewane]

 

[EndDomination]

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.

 

[Amo Husserl]

 

[WhatsGoodTy]

Anybody know any good self help books?


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[Amo Husserl]

 

[SupaVillain]

 

[Amo Husserl]

 

[Danie84]

...it was under our unofficial "1st Black President Bill Clinton" when the prison system boomed in the 90s

 

[EndDomination]

...it was under our unofficial "1st Black President Bill Clinton" when the prison system boomed in the 90s

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/

 

[Amo Husserl]

 

[EndDomination]

Just finished "When Crack Was King" a few months ago - so much to the "epidemic" - fascinating reads

 

[Amo Husserl]

Just finished "When Crack Was King" a few months ago - so much to the "epidemic" - fascinating reads

Been meaning to get that one as a people's history component.
Might get it next week. "Beyond the Crack Generation" is a good source too.

 

[Amo Husserl]

 

[Amo Husserl]

 

[EndDomination]

Jumping in with a few reads:

Got the new translation of Capital Vol. 1 by Marx; and am also rereading Scenes of Subjection, in its new edition.

Grabbed The Deluge by. Adam Tooze a few months ago so I've been thumbing through.