Boston Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure
J. GwynneBoston ReviewIn an event co-hosted with @philosopher1923, philosopher Kate Soper, author of the lead essay in our most recent issue, The Politics of Pleasure, sat down with leading socialist feminist thinker @lynne_segal to discuss the finer points of Soper's argument. https://t.co/e7PC0J8uYt
Hardcover, 2013
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Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka PurnellBoston ReviewAn interview with Derecka Purnell about her new book ‘Becoming Abolitionists’ (@astrahousebooks), how we should think about the systems that produce violence, and, ultimately, the resources that will allow people to live safely: https://t.co/cAHNh3upDX
Paperback, 2022
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Black Existential Freedom
Nathalie EtokeBoston Review“You can’t address freedom without discussing dispossession of land, the genocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of people of African descent.” @lewgord talks to Nathalie Etoke about her book Black Existential Freedom, just out from @RLPGBooks: https://t.co/wPYYJR8ZR7
Paperback, 2022
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The Town of Babylon
Alejandro VarelaBoston ReviewJoin BR arts editor Adam McGee and @drovarela at @booksmithtweets next week for the launch of Varela's new novel, THE TOWN OF BABYLON (@astrahousebooks)! Free for all — just register at the link: https://bit.ly/3966aMb https://t.co/oUbiTlEQpj
Paperback, 2024
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Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America
Wendy A. WolosonBoston ReviewWendy A. Woloson, author of 'Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America' (@UChicagoPress) writes about how her #cancer diagnosis made her realize how cheap, hollow, and meaningless stuff has infiltrated even the most private parts of our lives: https://t.co/BGuF5hKPxQ
Paperback, 2022
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle HernándezBoston ReviewKelly Lytle Hernández’s new book Bad Mexicans is “a tale of heroes, antagonists, and networks of power,” as well as “a story of everyday, local acts of resistance that offer us lessons about ourselves,” writes Jonna Perrillo. https://t.co/BCuaf5rByf
Paperback, 2023
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Black And White: Land, Labor And Politics In The South (1884)
T. Thomas FortuneBoston Review“Where is T. Thomas Fortune in the pantheon of radical Black intellectuals?” On the forgotten founder of abolition democracy, taken from Robin D. G. Kelley's foreword to the new edition of Black and White (@simonschuster): https://t.co/5Djlip9qOd
Hardcover, 2010
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The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Brit BennettBoston ReviewFrom the film by Rebecca Hall to Brit Bennett’s 'The Vanishing Half', recent dramatizations of racial passing reveal its complexity. Individual choice aside, we must also study passing as part of a collective method to correct racial injustice:https://bostonreview.net/articles/the-burdened-virtue-of-racial-passing/
Paperback, 2022
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Leaves of Grass
Walt WhitmanBoston ReviewUpset with the eroticism in his poems, reviewers for Leaves of Grass in 1855 called the work "a mass of stupid filth." Fast-forward to 2022, and Walt Whitman's queerness is celebrated — but complicated: https://t.co/01yRssC2PS
Leather / Fine Binding, 2018
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Black Theology: A Documentary History: 1966-1979
James H. ConeBoston Review"1969 saw the birth of two of the most important texts of Africana religious thought: John Mbiti’s African Religions and Philosophy and James Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power." Cone died #OnThisDay 5 years ago: https://t.co/mOJfGVDJqr
Paperback, 1993
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