Prof Folúkẹ́ Adébísí 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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African woman, lawyer, teacher, poet. Singer of songs, writer of words. @BristolUniLaw. Trustee-@BlackSWNet Tweets are personal. RTs ≠ ENDTs. Joy is necessary.
Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility
Folúkẹ́ AdébísíProf Folúkẹ́ AdébísíOUT NOW "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility" This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teaching, researching, and practising of law. https://t.co/oD643wefAS
Hardcover, 2023
$149.95$124.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Dorothy RobertsProf Folúkẹ́ Adébísí@bayinganaa @dch1309 Very infuriating indeed. We use Dorothy Roberts work a lot in our class and she talks about this and many other assumptions: Roberts, Dorothy. Fatal invention: How science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century. New Press/ORIM, 2011.
Paperback, 2012
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Black Unicorn: Poems
Audre LordeProf Folúkẹ́ Adébísí'Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.' Audre Lorde https://t.co/pgNu6TQAN5
Paperback, 1995
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kindred
Octavia ButlerProf Folúkẹ́ AdébísíMitch, [not I!] suggests that you call in sick so you have time to read this article! I use Octavia Butler's Kindred as my main example of how the disruption of racial injustice can be done in our teaching in law schools. You may want to read that too. https://t.co/na3XdjgSxu https://t.co/ftdeGWzL4h
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Power and Possibility: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews
Elizabeth AlexanderProf Folúkẹ́ AdébísíGathering more dates for #PowerandPossibility "book tour". Looking forward to talking about the book with law and non-law academics, as well as non-academics. https://t.co/wFXJjrf3SL
Paperback, 2007
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Zong!
M. Nourbese PhilipProf Folúkẹ́ AdébísíEvery 29th of November, the poem Zong! becomes ‘a social sacrament’ to honour 130 Africans killed. M. NourbeSe Philip uses the text of the case report Gregson v Gilbert, to rip apart and reconfigure the language in a way that remembers those who died. https://t.co/w7CZmkVUTv
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Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying
Ram DassProf Folúkẹ́ Adébísí“We’re all just walking each other home.” Ram Dass Or at least we should be...
Paperback, 2022
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization
Lewis GordonProf Folúkẹ́ Adébísí@GlexAreen This may not be what you are looking for exactly, but I know Lewis Gordon writes/talks about human nature a lot. He argues that "the notion of human nature should be abandoned in favor of a human condition." This is in his book 'Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization.'
Hardcover, 2020
$180.00$155.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Hamlet
W. ShakespeareProf Folúkẹ́ Adébísí@Illustrious_Cee Watching Nigerian politics, is like watching a Chaplin farce, in which all the actors think they are all acting in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan PatonProf Folúkẹ́ Adébísí“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply...” Cry, Beloved Country by Alan Paton https://t.co/UTHcPnD7Cd via @folukeifejola
Hardcover, 2003
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book