Black History Month 2023
On what it means to be a “good” person, grappling with our place in society, and ancestor work through the lens of Black History Month.
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Book Review: They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
I wasn’t surprised by how thought-provoking I found They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. I bought this book in early 2019, but only started to read it in earnest this past January 2020, and […]
Book Reviews in Review Part II: Books that Center Blackness
Over the course of my time writing this blog I’ve reviewed a lot of books, many of which center blackness including books that discuss racism as a larger topic and thus also include marginalization on a wider scale. I thought that, seeing as how this is my last post during Black History Month, it would […]
Book Review: An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
When I told a colleague of mine that I was reading An African American and Latinx History of the United States, they were surprised, because they assumed that an African American history is distinct from a Latinx history, and therefore they should each be afforded their own book. My explanation to this person was the […]
Book Review: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
I think that Stamped from the Beginning is one of the heaviest and one of the most informative books that I have read this year. Often, I speed through texts, even nonfiction, but with a project this large I took my time digesting the material, as there was only so much I could read at […]
Book Review: What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison by Camille T. Dungy
“Lady, my one regret / is that we don’t have appetite enough / to make you break every damned plate inside this room.” As a person of color, I am undeniably drawn to works that discuss race in a way that does not skim over the harsh realities that we face every day. As someone […]
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Last week, my department had a screening of the documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” by Werner Herzog. The documentary is centered around the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Said cave contains amazing works of prehistoric art, dating back over 30,000 years. It was in constant use for so long that some overlapping images are thought to […]