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"Getting "woke" and shit. I need some book recs. "


  

          

Aye yo, I'm talking ear reading and eye reading ya'll. Audiobooks and books.

I'm never not reading somethin'. Lately, I've been thinking about history, black empowerment, economics, policy and politics.


Recent reads:

***'The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap' (8.5 hrs)

Easily 🎤🎤🎤🎤. You ever read some shit and you start feeling like you see the world differently? I had that with this one.

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Money-Black-Racial-Wealth/dp/0674970950


***'Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right' (4hrs)

You want to know how we got here and what the alt right is? and I don't mean "oh them boys with the tiki torches" - this book goes deep into how we got here from a social media perspective and how we got here from a philosophical+historical perspective


***'Black Rednecks and White Liberals'
Fuckin' don't even read this horseshit. Thomas Sowell is the black guy they can rollout to say "see? you niggers have it fucked up, opportunity is still alive in America"

I made gave it 1 hour before being mad I even tried to be fair with ideas.

*** 'Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow'
Dense, the thing I got from it is...nothing is real, we're only really in love with symbols - as in, The King merely a representation of what we want to have in a king.

*** 'The Plot to Betray America; How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It'

Trump is a certified piece of shit. The end.

Recommended reading for a long drive if you want to have some Trump facts to drop on his fans who deny reality.

***'Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities'

Essentially, the only color that matter is green is a fucking lie of the devil. Our property, lives and the things we (black people) touch are devalued. I havent read it yet, its next up.


What you got?




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Getting "woke" and shit. I need some book recs. [View all] , double negative, Mon Nov-09-20 04:10 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
I would start with Cheryl Harris' "Whiteness As Property" (1993)
Nov 09th 2020
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"Woke" to me is more cultural than political/economic. So....
Nov 09th 2020
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Adolph Reed Jr's 1995 "What Are The Drums Saying, Booker?"
Nov 09th 2020
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Yeah, folks think cultural is fluff
Nov 09th 2020
5
I meant it in a tongue-in-cheek way.
Nov 09th 2020
6
To you and people that like to subvert the term(not saying you are)
Nov 09th 2020
8
A start
Nov 09th 2020
3
Good post. n/m
Nov 09th 2020
7
RE: Getting "woke" and shit. I need some book recs.
Nov 10th 2020
9
that second one, that sounds really interesting.
Nov 11th 2020
10
Both great books
Nov 19th 2020
18
Reading Jazz As Critique by Fumi Okiji
Nov 11th 2020
11
Color of money is a great book.
Nov 11th 2020
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i'm reading The Color of Money right now...
Nov 13th 2020
13
Right? Its opened up a new area of anger I didnt know I had.
Nov 19th 2020
15
Contemporary stuff there, I still think the classics are also vital
Nov 18th 2020
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You're the 2nd person to recommend The Fire Next Time
Nov 19th 2020
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RE: some book recs
Nov 19th 2020
17
Man Not is one of the best books I've ever read
Nov 19th 2020
19
Just picked up The Man - Not. Thanks for the rec
Nov 19th 2020
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just about finished the man not
Dec 01st 2020
26
RE: Getting "woke" and shit. I need some book recs.
Nov 19th 2020
20
if you read the Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, you should read
Nov 20th 2020
22
RE: Getting "woke" and shit. I need some book recs.
Nov 22nd 2020
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"Conflict Is Not Abuse" by Sarah Shulman
Nov 23rd 2020
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Categorically Unequal - Douglas Massey
Nov 24th 2020
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NPR’s Book Concierge always has good recs
Dec 01st 2020
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Here you go
Dec 02nd 2020
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Dubois - Black Reconstruction in America
Dec 16th 2020
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Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman
Dec 16th 2020
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bell hooks - Outlaw Culture
Dec 16th 2020
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