La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Ngugi Wa Thiong'oLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)It makes them see their past as one wasteland of nonachievement and it makes them want to distance themselves from that wasteland.” - Ngūgī wa Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, 1986(quoted in Charles Mills' The Racial Contract, 1997)
Paperback, 2011
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Martin Luther KingLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)...the poisoning of the American mind was accomplished not only by acts of discrimination and exploitation but by the exaltation of murder as an expression of the courage and initiative of the pioneer." —Martin Luther King, Jr. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
Paperback, 2010
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A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
Dionne BrandLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)“What if the cognitive schema is captivity?” - Dionne Brand, Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
Paperback, 2024
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Daina Ramey BerryLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)@haymarketbooks I'm reading this important book - The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry. I have to take breaks often because it's searing. This is more history I didn't learn in my formal education. https://t.co/EmyJ5NXPVZ
Paperback, 2017
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Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz FanonLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Be glad you’re French, you lucky Blacks, even if it is a bit tough, for in America your counterparts are more unfortunate than you are. . . . France is a racist country, for the myth of the bad [n*****] is part of the collective unconscious. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Paperback, 2008
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni MorrisonLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)"Silence from and about the subject was the order of the day. Some of the silences were broken, and some were maintained by authors who lived with and within the policing strategies. What I am interested in are the strategies for breaking it." - Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark
Paperback, 1993
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See You Soon
Mariame KabaLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Today I got my copy of Mariame Kaba's, @prisonculture, new children's book See You Soon. Illustrations by Bianca Diaz. The story centers on how a child deals with her mother being imprisoned. A lovely and important book. Get it via @haymarketbooks. https://t.co/yioSUqyz5H https://t.co/sCiCk6UJAh
Hardcover, 2022
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells-BarnettLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1892
Paperback, 2014
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The Color Purple
Alice WalkerLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)"Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me." - Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Paperback, 2019
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Afropessimism
Frank B. WildersonLa Tanya S. Autry (she/her)@phethani4 and then burn the ship or the plantation, in its past and present incarnations, from the inside out." - Frank B. Wilderson, Afropessimism, p 103
Paperback, 2021
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