Book recommendations sought: black history and racism

Kendall Clark <kendall-4GNy1lrxftmrG/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.politics.leftists.monkeyfist
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>>>>> "dave" == Dave Rolsky <[email protected]> writes:

  dave> I'm interested in book recommendations on the above mentioned
  dave> topics.  To expand, I'm interested in finding books covering
  dave> the following topics:

  dave> - What racism is.  How it is perpetuated.  What is
  dave> structural/instutional racism?  The relationship between
  dave> racism and class.

  dave> - Black history.  I'm interested in the period from the end of
  dave> the civil war to the present day.

  dave> - Books on related topics.  Jonathan Kozol's _Savage
  dave> Inequalities_ comes to mind as an example.  Its not a book
  dave> about what racism is, but rather the _effects_ of racism and
  dave> classism.  Anything in this vein would also be of interest.

  dave> These books will be read by a non-native speaker/reader (plus
  dave> myself) so clarity in the writing is important.  I'm looking
  dave> for books that aren't in a highly academic style, though if
  dave> that's the only thing that covers a particular topic well I'd
  dave> like to hear about it.

Most of those topics will be convered by the MF BHM Reading List we're
assembling. It's probably at 100 items so far, only a very few of
which are online yet.

We're building the list over the Web, so you can peek at it here:

      http://monkeyfist.com:8080/morgue/politics/BHM/reading/

It'll be on http://bhm.monkeyfist.com/ when it's done (which should be
by the end of Feb).

Kendall
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