Category: Reviews
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Can A Leopard Change Its Spots? Undermining the Black Studies Tradition
By Tryon P. Woods Speaking at a 1971 symposium sponsored by Atlanta’s Institute for the Black World, C.L.R. James made the observation…
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Book Review: A Black Radical Intellectual Hero Writes, And Scholars Rescue, A Victory-Tinged History
Walter Rodney’s notes of his 1970-1971 lectures have been shaped into a book by Robin D.G. Kelly, Jesse Benjamin and Vijay Prashad.…
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Book Review: Michael Eric Dyson And “Official And Safe Lines Of Thought”
What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America.Michael Eric Dyson.St. Martin’s Press, 294 pp. $24.99.…
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BOOK REVIEW: ZORA TAKES (HER) TIME, AND FREEZES IT BLACK
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” Zora Neale Hurston. Edited by Deborah G. Plant. Foreword by Alice Walker. Amistad, 208…
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Book Review: Malcolm X: History Is Best Qualified
The Judas Factor: The Life and Death of Malcolm Shabazz Limited 25th Anniversary Edition. Karl Evanzz. Xis Books, 541 pp.,…
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BOOK REVIEW: New Mumia Abu-Jamal Book A Decolonizing House of Common Sense and Proper Propaganda About G*d$#mn America
Murder, Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny. Book One: Dreaming of Empire. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by Chris Hedges. Prison…
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Book Review: Ron Walters, Power Man
Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010. Robert C. Smith. State University of New York Press, 354 pp., $34.95.…
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The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the Extreme
The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the ExtremeJared A. Ball originally for imixwhatilike.org “Fuck everyone. Burn everything.” – De La Soul, “Lord Intended,” The…
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Fruitvale Station is Sadly Fruitless
“I was worried about the police… Call it a father’s intuition… In the past, you could hang a black man from a…