Dwayne Betts 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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Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, legal scholar, educator and prison reform advocate.
One: The Gospel According to Mike
Michael WilliamsDwayne BettsAnyway, I’m glad I write that one thing for somebody other than me. All my other shit is kind of for me. But that was for Michael K Williams, who has inspired me to learn the only two minutes of dancing I’ll ever know.
Hardcover, 2012
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
Victor M. RiosDwayne BettsI think I was first hipped to him when I heard Hands Up. It opens: North Division trying to stop my blackness.... Joint was ill, and so many of the lyrics echo Victor Rios book Punished.
Paperback, 2011
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I Hear America Singing: Poems of Democracy, Manhattan, and the Future
Walt WhitmanDwayne BettsWhen the teacher suggested to me that Walt Whitman's I Hear America Singing was a white poem. Yes, I laughed from my belly. And, okay, I might have said I would have cussed a high schooler out for suggesting such blasphemy to me. But....
Paperback, 2004
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon JamesDwayne Betts@reyespoint Marlon James. Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Sequel comes out in two weeks and is equally great.
Paperback, 2020
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Nairobi Heat
Mukoma Wa NgugiDwayne Betts@mdemone @AywaRhiannon Winter Counts by David Hess’s Wanbli Weiden, a Native American cat. This is a dope thriller set in South Dakota. But LaRose by Louis Eldrich is also fantastic. That’s not a thriller but absolutely heartbreaking. Nairobi Heat by Mukoma wa Ngugi is also dope.
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Alice GoffmanDwayne BettsIn On the Run, Alice Goffman misses the larger truth about black urban communities—like the one I grew up in. By Dwayne Betts. https://t.co/7LnemPlLa6 via @slate
Hardcover, 2014
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Redaction
Reginald Dwayne BettsDwayne BettsToday you can pre-order Redaction, the new book by me and my man Titus Kaphar. https://t.co/1uyPzXTwfk
Hardcover, 2023
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Black No More
George S. SchuylerDwayne BettsI wrote about the inimitable Tariq Trotter, also known as Black Thought. And talked about his work in relationship to George Schuyler. And why he and Ridley and Bill T Jones remade Black No More. Hope y'all enjoy. https://t.co/nXSC3l71XW
Paperback, 2018
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Felon: Poems
Reginald Dwayne BettsDwayne BettsPlease ban Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts. It advances a lot of critical race theory and other ideas concerned inflammatory. Headline I want to follow: 'Maus' ban makes Art Spiegelman's Holocaust graphic novel an Amazon bestseller https://t.co/7lxDaBbAs6
Paperback, 2021
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Shibumi
TrevanianDwayne Betts“If we forsake beauty, in our desperate struggle to live, the barbarians have already one.” From Trevanian’s Shibumi. You can call the cell or dorm in prison you lived in whatever you want. I don’t even begrudge you. But I return to the tragic homes of men and women. Not cages.
Paperback, 2005
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