Ursula Wolfe-Rocca 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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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Barbara RansbyUrsula Wolfe-Rocca"Since Baker never wrote an organizing manual or ideological treatise, her theory was literally inscribed in her daily work — her practice." —Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (the flower got away from me — it happens) #ComradeCard https://t.co/6oMKLBIWFe
Paperback, 2005
$39.95Member price:$37.95 + Free shipping5% off
Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement
Vincent HardingUrsula Wolfe-RoccaWas reminded of the great Lerone Bennett Jr.'s foreword to Vincent Harding's Hope and History, which is a tribute to teaching & teachers. He says that history is not "a spectacle but a task," & good teachers recognize that.
Paperback, 2010
$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Jenny OdellUrsula Wolfe-Rocca@HarperKeenan Have you read Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing? Or her new one, Saving Time?
Paperback, 2024
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reconsidering Reparations
Olúfẹ́mi O. TáíwòUrsula Wolfe-RoccaRe-reading Reconsidering Reparations by @OlufemiOTaiwo with an eye toward some new high school curriculum on #ClimateReparations. https://t.co/h8qjX4MxDL
Hardcover, 2022
$40.99Member price:$40.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Rehearsals for Living
Robyn MaynardUrsula Wolfe-RoccaRead the first chapter (letter) of Rehearsals for Living (by @policingblack & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson) this morning & copied down this quotation for the next time I need to explain what we mean when we say #TeachClimateJustice. https://t.co/PiwLjp2i3y
Paperback, 2022
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Adapted for Young People
Jeanne TheoharisUrsula Wolfe-RoccaThis afternoon, @ZinnEdProject is hosting @JeanneTheoharis in conversation with @JessedHagopian. They’ll discuss & show excerpts from the new documentary, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. I will be there! https://t.co/3jDhHCA96f
Paperback, 2021
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Kelly HayesUrsula Wolfe-RoccaMariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes say they had newer organizers in mind when they wrote Let This Radicalize You; yes, if you are new to organizing, this book is for you! https://t.co/12M3HjPQmI
Paperback, 2023
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Southern Mystique
Howard ZinnUrsula Wolfe-RoccaImani Perry (@imaniperry) is here! She is asked about why recommends Southern Mystique by Howard Zinn in her most recent book South to America.
Paperback, 2012
$18.00Member price:$18.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
Alaina E. RobertsUrsula Wolfe-RoccaDr. Roberts is the author of *I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land* which “chart[s] cycles of dispossession, land seizure, & settlement in Indian Territory, draw[ing] on archival research & family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction.”
Paperback, 2023
$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
Stacey L. SmithUrsula Wolfe-RoccaDr. Williams recommends two books in particular on this: @katemasur's Until Justice Be Done & Stacey Smith's Freedom's Frontier. (I used some of Smith's work to learn about Reconstruction here in Oregon!) https://t.co/QhQfmuvQW9
Paperback, 2015
$39.95Member price:$37.95 + Free shipping5% off