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Aug/Sept '20 Antiracism
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From Our Poll:
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (US Based)
(UK based)
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (US Based)
The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (US Based)

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (US Based)

The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
From Emma Watson's Instagram post 6/4/2020
The Wretched of the Earth
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Between the World and Me
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Girl, Woman, Other
White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain
The Good Immigrant

The Wretched of the Earth

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Between the World and Me

Black and British: A Forgotten History

Girl, Woman, Other

White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society

I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain

The Good Immigrant



I have previously shared a list of race + feminism authors a couple months ago in response to another poster seeing book suggestions in this group - I can’t recall which thread it is...but this is the gist :).
I am currently reading:
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption and Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children and So You Want to Talk About Race
I just finished: Dear Martin and Hello Mum which are heartbreaking, insightful and so powerful!
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (which is so insightful - still processing my thoughts).
A few feminism + race relations books I have read and highly recommend (in no order of preference):
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
The Bluest Eye
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Thick: And Other Essays
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Our Shared Shelf book pick)
The Hate U Give (Our Shared Shelf book pick) and On the Come Up
The Black Flamingo
Girl, Woman, Other
Sing, Unburied, Sing
A Place for Us
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
No One Can Pronounce My Name
Queenie
Beloved
And here’s a few others I plan to read in the near future:
In Black and White: A Young Barrister's Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice System
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
It's Not About the Burqa
Dear Justyce
Concrete Rose
Books mentioned in this topic
A Place for Us (other topics)The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (other topics)
Beloved (other topics)
No One Can Pronounce My Name (other topics)
Queenie (other topics)
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