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What are you reading? October 6, 2023 [1]

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Date: 2023-10-06

In WAYR?, I note what I’m reading and comment...you note what you are reading and comment. Occasionally, I may add a section or a link related to books…

I am reading:

Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance by Nikki M. Taylor - Saw this book in the new releases section of the library and scanned it (it’s a little over 200 pages with ~40-45 pages of endnotes). It’s a history of enslaved Black women who murdered or attempted to murder their slaveowners. These stories (and Dr. Taylor is a good storyteller) are not for the faint of heart. I have reviewed one book by the esteemed Howard University professor before.

Another primary goal of this book is also an attempt to sketch out a genealogy, of sorts, of a Black feminist theory and practice of justice.

I will say this for now: this history confirms a belief that I’ve had since my early 20’s: the proper mode and genre for writing the history of slavery is horror, with all the conventions of that genre. This will be reviewed.

Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

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