OVERVIEW Overall Completion Rate – I’m up a few titles from 2024, when I finished 31 books. Something I’ve noticed over the past few years is that I really have gone down in my overall reading, and/or completion rate for books (some of past annual booklists have been in the 50-60 range, and in 2023 […]
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Dread Nation – Justina Ireland And In the End: The Last Days of the Beatles – Ken McNab Deathless Divide – Justina Ireland The Dark Fantastic – Ebony Elizabeth Thomas* Project Management – Adrienne Watt Who I Am – Pete Townshend Bloom – Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau You Brought Me the Ocean – Alex […]
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The Black Mage – Daniel Barnes and DJ Kirkland West and East – Harry Turtledove Ready Player Two – Ernest Cline The Incendiaries* – R.O. Kwon Killing Poetry* – Javon Johnson Snapdragon – Kat Leyh Trick Mirror – Jia Tolentino Why Won’t You Apologize? – Harriet Lerner Save It For Later* – Nate Powell Love […]
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BOOKLIST 2020 Love’s Not Colorblind – Kevin Patterson Bowie’s Bookshelf – John O’Connell Notes from Underground – Stephen Duncombe The Nickel Boys* – Colson Whitehead Information Services Today – Sandra Hirsch, ed. Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud The Last Emperox*- John Scalzi The Hard Tomorrow* – Eleanor Davis Too Much and NeVer Enough – Mary […]
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BOOK LIST 2019 This is the 10th Anniversary of the Book List! Friday Black – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Go Ahead in the Rain – Hanif Abdurraqib* Pink Noises – Tara Rodgers Moshi moshi – Banana Yoshimoto Blackbird – David Harrower Art Sex Music – Cosey Fanni Tutti The Witch Boy– Molly Knox Ostertag** The Book […]
READ MOREWHITE SUPREMACY, WHITE NATIONALISM: SOME CRUCIAL DISTINCTIONS
The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black. – James Baldwin Let’s just lay this out: White supremacy is not exceptional in the US. It’s what we have classically called racism, but more clearly lays out the reality that social/institutional racism is built upon a […]
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2018 BOOK LIST Women of Ice and Fire – edited by Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart Seventeen – Kenzaburo Oe So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo** J – Kenzaburo Oe Dark Money – Jane Mayer** Annihilation – Jeff Vandermer The Leftovers – Tom Perotta Educated – Tara Westover Fetch – Nicole […]
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Talk from “Civility, Civil Rights and Civil Resistance: The CVille Syllabus” panel presentation at Institute for the Humanities and Global Culture, University of Virginia with Sophie Abramovitz, Maya Hislop, and Eva Latterner from Graduate Student Coalition for Liberation April 5, 2018 “Social Power and the Oppressive Potential of Civility” I want to thank Sophie, Maya, […]
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2017 BOOK LIST Children of the New World* – Alexander Weinstein Set the Boy Free** – Johnny Marr Substance: Inside New Order* – Peter Hook Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Joy Degruy We Gon’ Be Alright – Jeff Chang Tau Zero* – Poul Anderson Finks – Joel Whitney The Truth About Trump* – Michael D’Antonio The […]
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Following is the statement I delivered on July 17, 2017 at the Charlottesville City Council Meeting, where the police violence is response to the community counter-protest of the July 8th KKK rally and upcoming August 12th white nationalist rally were being discussed. Folks are pushing for the Aug 12th permit to be revoked, citing a […]
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