i have so many political / theory books that i want to read that it’s hard for me to pick one to read 😭
soooo help me choose!
Washington Bullets - Vijay Prashad
Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins
Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P Newton
Fearing the Black Body - Sabrina Strings
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Jesus and John Wayne - Kristen Kobes Du Mez
Committed - Suzanne Scanlon
How to Hide an Empire - Daniel Immerwahr
Why Woman Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Kristen R Ghodsee
and just in case anyone else is interested let me tell you a lil bit about each book is about because i’m stalling :)
Washington Bullets - history of CIA, coups, and assassinations. acts of us imperialism. stifling of people’s movements.
Color of Law - how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation.
The Jakarta Method - Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. US governments support + complicity in anticommunist killings around the world.
Revolutionary Suicide - autobiography. his manifesto and political philosophy. choosing death before accepting the existing state.
Fearing the Black Body - The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. how fat phobia stems from racist ideologies not medical evidence.
Braiding Sweetgrass - Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. a celebration of indigenous knowledge.
Jesus and John Wayne - How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Militant masculinity within the evangelical faith, opposing the image of a loving jesus.
Committed - On Meaning and Madwomen. a memoir following a woman admitted to a psychiatric hospital and what it was like inside.
How to Hide an Empire - A History of the Greater United States. US replacing colonization with globalization.
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - Socialist societies being overall better for women, women being more liberated and therefore having more control over their lives.
