Recommended Reads for developing your personal politics
How We
Get Free
Combahee River Collective >
I'm not nostalgic. I'm looking back to mine the past for what it can help us with right now, and for what it can help us pass on and create.
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Angela Y. Davis >
I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
The New
Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander >
Jim Crow never ended, but rather just changed forms--today, millions of African Americans are locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement.
Carceral Capitalism
Jackie Wang >
The a priori association of blackness with guilt and criminality comforts white America by enabling people to believe that black Americans are deserving of their condition...
WeChatting
American
Politics:
This report sheds light on the nature of misinformation and political polarization in the WeChat news sphere...but also highlight the specificity of the information problem for the immigrant population.
Misinformation, Polarization,
and Immigrant Chinese Media
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis >
[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
Alien
Capital
Iyko Day >
How the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features...
Asian Americans
Throughout
Brief profiles of people and events from AAPI history. Including: Grace Lee Boggs, Corky Lee, Peter Yew police brutality protests, Jung Sai Garment Strike, and more!
the People's History of
the United States
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