Blues and Abstract Truth Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Toward the African Revolution
Frantz FanonBlues and Abstract TruthThe only way I can see France getting back into this game and making a difference is if they can bring on Albert Camus (‘The Rebel’), Frantz Fanon (‘Toward the African Revolution’) and Napoleon Bonaparte!
Paperback, 1994
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Kindred
Octavia ButlerBlues and Abstract TruthStarted watching Hulu’s ‘Kindred’ based on Octavia Butler’s classic novel. By episode 4 I can say of all its irritants uppermost is Dana’s leading character. Of various Black characters in the show she’s the only one without any Black awareness or affinity with other Black folks.
Paperback, 2004
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Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
Donald YacovoneBlues and Abstract TruthBeen reading Donald Yacovone’s 2021 ‘Teaching White Supremacy’. An eminently informative history of the mass dissemination of ideals of white supremacy through textbooks in US schools. It makes the case that America’s ‘original sin’ was not so much slavery as white supremacy.
Paperback, 2023
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert CamusBlues and Abstract TruthThe only way I can see France getting back into this game and making a difference is if they can bring on Albert Camus (‘The Rebel’), Frantz Fanon (‘Toward the African Revolution’) and Napoleon Bonaparte!
Paperback, 1992
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Poetics
AristotleBlues and Abstract TruthWestern philosophy is European philosophers thinking abstractly thru & about things codified as European: “Hegel’s ideas discuss Aristotle’s poetics, Sophocles’ Antigone & Aristophanes’ comedy, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Goethe, & Friedrich Schiller’s drama” https://t.co/7jEaOiD083
Paperback, 2013
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