Kenan Malik Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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From "Fifty Years After', Du Bois' foreword to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Souls of Black Folk https://t.co/yINSGddjA2

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Equally excited to be in conversation with @sallyhayd. *My Fourth Time, We Drowned* is one of the necessary books of our age. https://t.co/iNXls1NDvf

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@MrJCrouch @AlwynTurner That's not how many of those who were at the negotiations for the founding of League of Nations saw it. See, for instance, Stephen Bonsal's *Unfinished Business*. Or, from a broader perspective, there's Lake and Reynolds' *Drawing the Global Colour Line*.

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And this is a table from Carl Brigham’s 1923 book “A Study of American Intelligence” on the different degrees of “Nordic”, “Alpine” and “Mediterranean” blood in different European nations. Only those with mostly Nordic blood were considered “white” 18/ https://t.co/wbueCENsjg

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“…races may form – not merely one, but several races – so miserable, inferior and bastardized that they may be classed as below the most inferior savage races, for their inferiority is sometimes beyond cure.” (Cited in Daniel Pick, “Faces of Degeneration”, p. 60) 6/

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The book’s restraint is also its strength. The tension in the narrative flows from the dread captured in the title – the dread of waiting to be arrested, to be vanished into detention, a dread no Uyghur can escape.

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From "Fifty Years After', Du Bois' foreword to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Souls of Black Folk https://t.co/yINSGddjA2

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@ChapelGuilt @ObserverUK Susan Sontag (in "On Photography"): "Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality... of making it stand still... One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images."

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@pokeymarley @Iram_Ramzan 1."Struggle to call it out"... Having written a book called "From Fatwa to Jihad: How the World Changed from The Satanic Verses to Salman Rushdie" I think I know better than you how to call things out. Helps to know what someone's done before challenging them for not doing it.

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Albert Woodfox, one of the “Angola 3”, placed in solitary confinement for *42 years* as political punishment, has died. https://t.co/bdOXwuM5c8