The Root: What books are you reading right now?

[JoelB]

Had to take a break from dapping all these posts...does @Elle Driver still post on thecoli? i need to see her full library

 

[The Fade]

Has anyone read Gravity’s Rainbow?

 

[JoelB]

Has anyone read Gravity’s Rainbow?

no but its on my list on goodreads...several people i mess with told me its good

 

[The Fade]

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[Jimmy from Linkedin]

finally got a book on interlibrary loan that I gotta go in to read. I have been getting to the limit of this niche. very excited. hopefully ill be able to scan the book despite needing to go to the reading room.

 

[Amo Husserl]

 

[Water]

Not sure if any of yall are ebook readers but amazon is removing their download and transfer option on the 26th. I just downloaded my entire library and moved them over to calibre ( then removed drm and converted to epub )

 

[Water]

I'm just about done with Stokely Speaks and my god . How did I never hear about this man growing up. I'm so inspired brehs

 

[DeuceZ]

Too Big to Jail

 

[yardman]

 

[cjt11203]

Currently reading Huey Newton's Revolutionary Suicide. My progress slowed down for a bit because of life, but I covered a lot of ground listening to the audiobook to and from class. This book almost directly builds off Malcom's work and should be essential reading alongside the Autobiography of Malcom X. But that can be said about many other black revolutionaries. I plan on reading Assata Shakur biography next.

Moving forward to be consistent I'll get the physical copy but if I'm struggling to get through it, I'll then buy the audiobook. Reading my books are important but I'm also trying to build a physical media library.

 

[Amo Husserl]

@HarlemHottie

Spoiler: Book

 

[HarlemHottie]

@HarlemHottie

Spoiler: Book

Let me know if they cover these two images. If so, I might pick it up myself.

Spoiler

File:Terracotta head of Semite, marked "Hebrew" by Petrie. From Memphis, Foreign Quarter, Egypt. Graeco-Roman Period. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Figurine_from_Egypt_of_semitic_slave_%282%29.jpg/500px-Figurine_from_Egypt_of_semitic_slave_%282%29.jpg?20130401183807

My contribution: I just bought this like five minutes ago.

 

[Amo Husserl]

Let me know if they cover these two images. If so, I might pick it up myself.

Spoiler

File:Terracotta head of Semite, marked "Hebrew" by Petrie. From Memphis, Foreign Quarter, Egypt. Graeco-Roman Period. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Figurine_from_Egypt_of_semitic_slave_%282%29.jpg/500px-Figurine_from_Egypt_of_semitic_slave_%282%29.jpg?20130401183807

My contribution: I just bought this like five minutes ago.

Introduction,
1 Dream and interpretation: ‘Two blacks, hideous to see’,
2 Sources of the symbol: ‘I am black but comely’,
3 In the Bible: ‘The children of Cush’,
4 In the literature of the Sages: ‘Ugly and black’,
5 In the cultural world of Islam: ‘Speech in its least developed form’,
6 In the Latin–Christian cultural world: ‘Beasts in all their ways’,
7 In the wake of exploration: ‘Naked and awash in lust’

 

[HarlemHottie]

Introduction,
1 Dream and interpretation: ‘Two blacks, hideous to see’,
2 Sources of the symbol: ‘I am black but comely’,
3 In the Bible: ‘The children of Cush’,
4 In the literature of the Sages: ‘Ugly and black’,
5 In the cultural world of Islam: ‘Speech in its least developed form’,
6 In the Latin–Christian cultural world: ‘Beasts in all their ways’,
7 In the wake of exploration: ‘Naked and awash in lust’

Tag me with your findings.