Scalawag 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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Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
Vivian MaierScalawagTwo years before she died, artist Vivian Maier's life’s work was liquidated because she couldn't afford to pay the fees on her storage units of photos. The men who bought her work profited through their "discovery" of a great "unknown" street photographer. https://t.co/uOLt2RdSNL
Hardcover, 2011
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Albert WoodfoxScalawagRIP to Albert Woodfox, a member of The Angola Three who was wrongfully convicted of murder. While in solitary confinement for 43 years, he organized for The Black Panther Party. "My greatest achievement was to teach a guy how to read and write," he said. https://t.co/MB7BjV9m1y
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Da'shaun L. HarrisonScalawagFrom last year: Read Scalawag editor-at-large and author of ‘Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness,’ @DaShaunLH in conversation about “the Black fat” and the nonbinary, trans-masculine experience. https://t.co/DRSpBRUgFM
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Motherworld: A Devotional for the Alter-Life
Destiny HemphillScalawagNEW ON THE SITE: A review of Destiny Hemphill's latest poetry collection, 'motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life' https://t.co/9Yy7ZufRds
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Central Prison: A History of North Carolina's State Penitentiary
Gregory S. TaylorScalawagIncarcerated author Lyle May adds: The "opinions" in question are mundane, easily-researched facts about prison enterprise often covered in @prisonlegalnews—which, by the way, is suing Central Prison for exactly this kind of censorship. Read the story: https://t.co/C83XX2XMC1 https://t.co/Ha1CNSVRhL
Hardcover, 2021
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South
Mab SegrestScalawagAs a white Southerner with Confederate great grandfathers, @mabsegrest, author of "Memoir of a Race Traitor" knew all about the white supremacist groups behind the January 6th riots. Their hate hasn't changed since the '80s—their tactics, however, have. https://t.co/v53dHla6q3
Paperback, 2019
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gumbo YA YA
Aurielle MarieScalawagFriday reads: Poet, essayist, and winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Aurielle Marie sits down with Alysia Nicole Harris to discuss their debut collection, ‘Gumbo Ya Ya.’ https://t.co/8vvbPqKd45
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
Akwaeke EmeziScalawagFor press around their memoir, "Dear Senthuran," Akwaeke Emezi set the requirement to speak with only nonwhite journalists. They are not in the mood to explain this book to white people, and they do not care whether they understand it or not. https://t.co/O5lt6l4LtM
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
Neema AvashiaScalawagNeema Avashia's memoir, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, begins, like many Appalachian stories do, with the chemical industry. https://t.co/V01EgGbKr7
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
Pauli MurrayScalawag"This holiday of flags puts me in mind of a passage from Proud Shoes, Murray's history of her "American family" and her most-read book. In it, she recalls that, sometime around the fourth grade, she came to hate the American flag." https://t.co/tKn7GCpt3Z
Paperback, 1999
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book