32,841 books
—
124,703 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
She knew that no matter how you self-identify ultimately, chances are that you succumb to becoming what the world treats you as.
“Enslaved Africans formulated new languages in nearly every European colony in the Americas, including African American Ebonics, Jamaican Patois, Haitian Creole, Brazilian Calunga, and Cubano. In every one of these countries, racist power—those in control of government, academia, education, and media—has demeaned these African languages as dialects, as “broken” or “improper” or “nonstandard” French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, or English. Assimilationists have always urged Africans in the Americas to forget the “broken” languages of our ancestors and master the apparently “fixed” languages of Europeans—to speak “properly.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it. The attempt to turn this usefully descriptive term into an almost unusable slur is, of course, designed to do the opposite: to freeze us into inaction.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
MashableReads
— 730 members
— last activity Apr 04, 2024 05:12PM
Mashable's social book club meets monthly for lively discussions of contemporary titles with the authors themselves. We're bringing together readers f ...more
Brooke’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Brooke’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,255 books
|
138 friends
2,696 books
|
81 friends
962 books
|
119 friends
683 books
|
574 friends
3,728 books
|
249 friends
740 books
|
260 friends
187 books
|
76 friends
511 books
|
20 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Brooke
Lists liked by Brooke