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In the spring of 1971, Ma returned to Nyack College and helped form a Black student union, an organization that challenged racist theology, the Confederate flags on dorm-room doors, and the paucity of Black students and programming. She started wearing African-print dresses and wrapped her growing Afro in African-print ties. She dreamed of travelin
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Many non-Black Americans looked down on Black addicts in revulsion—but too many Black folk looked down on the same addicts in shame.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
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Africanism has become, in the Eurocentric tradition that American education favors, both a way of talking about and a way of policing matters of class, sexual license, and repression, formations and exercises of power, and meditations on ethics and
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of theUnited States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War
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white men and Native women together,
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
These gripping biographies were as exciting to me as new video games on my Sega Genesis. Once I started reading, I could not stop. Discovering through these books the long history of harm done to Black Americans left me seething and brought to life a kind of racial consciousness for the first time.