Expanding Consciousness


The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today
The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction (Critical Black Studies)
The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature (New Directions in Southern Studies)
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Stokely: A Life
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
The Origins of the Civil Rights Movements: Black Communities Organizing for Change
Laurie Perez
We’re the ones who’ve chosen this role in life, to be taproots sucking on the juice of human consciousness.
Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

Laurie Perez
I’m fearless as long as my eyes are open. It doesn’t matter if I belong here or if I never truly gel with humanity. I’m in this game because it’s rich and I’m not going to bed tonight because who knows how much longer I’ll have to spend these endless coins of enlightenment.
Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

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