Well, here we are at the beginning of 2018.
Instead of creating a “Best of” list, I thought I would just complete everything I had intended to do this year. I don’t see much of a point of looking at what was “best,” but in my mind, I believe it may be important, particularly this year to look at and ponder what is necessary in order to survive 2018 with vigor and achievement.
My reading lists are born out of what I find going on my way through life. This Winter Reading List is full of books about Black women intellectuals, Black women’s oppression, existential thought through academic findings.
This year has been an interesting one for Black American women. It’s been a year where we’re beginning to find our voices and our places in intellectual, political and activist realms of American culture. I’m frankly fascinated by it because I’ve been a Black girl and woman all of my life. It is interesting for the world to have an opinion, and even more so, think that it’s their choice to open doors for us, or give us “places in society.” As if it is someone else’s “choice” to pay us fairly or to talk about how we win or lose or behave in the media. I’ve decided observe this winter.
I’ve decided to step back and read.
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
Edited By: Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Barbara D. Savage
By: Patricia Hill Collins
By: Patricia Hill Collins
Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
By: Michèle Barrett
This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition Writings by Radical Women of Color
By: Cherríe Moraga
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way
By: Alice Walker
In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence
By: Kristin Bumiller
Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience
By: Michelle Murphy
By: Danielle L. McGuire
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
By: Erik S. McDuffie
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality And Intimacy
By: Tricia Rose