2025: Bonus: Book about or by an author who is part of the Black radical tradition
Book recommendations/suggestions for the Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 book challenge. Find your next book!
read, seed, water, feed book challenge - about prompt support posts
about prompt support posts
All of the prompt support posts (those that begin with "2025: Book written by...", for example) are organized similar to each other.
Each of these posts was created to support the Read, Seed, Water Feed book challenge on Storygraph that I am hosting. They were also created to support learning outside of the university, collective educational efforts, finding new authors to read, finding books, and more.
For each book challenge prompt, I will share the following sections:
- one or more slides with books I have read or am currently reading that I recommend for the prompt
- a list of additional books from my TBR (to-be-read) list for the prompt
- a text listing of the books that I shared in the slides
I might share one or more of the following in addition, depending on capacity and other factors:
- other supportive text as appropriate, such as countries included
- some quotes, notes, and/or reflections about one or more of the books
- links to other posts on the site where I discuss the books or prompt in more detail
I did many things to minimize hierarchy within these posts, and there will still be some things that might feel odd, such as split galleries of slides, which was a choice made to address current limitations in how the galleries work.
If interested, find bingo cards, more background on the prompts, and other reflections, on the Reading Challenge page and if on Storygraph, join the challenge.
Mostly, my goal for prompt support posts is to share books for each prompt, as suggestions and as examples. This section will be first on every post and may be skipped.
Thank you for reading.
Recommended Books
Books I've read that I recommend for this prompt.
Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 reading challenge prompt and description, showing books recommended that I have read or am currently reading. All recommended books are listed lower in the post in the section “Recommended Books in a List.”
Notes
In creating this page, I realized one of the difficulties I had with this category was the way I had described it. Originally, it was "Book about or by an author who is part..." After changing it to "Book about or by someone who is part..." the category made a lot more sense to me. I will try to write separately about why I created this bonus category, when I find the words.
Recommended Books in a List
As a list, books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt:
Nonfiction
Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) by Angela Y. Davis
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) by Assata Shakur
Decolonial Marxism (2022) by Walter Rodney
Decolonising the Mind (1981) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (2020) by Robin D.G. Kelley
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings (1978) by Steve Biko
The Nation on No Map (2021) by William C. Anderson.
The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye (2020) by Andaiye, Alissa Trotz
Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral (1973) by Amílcar Cabral
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970) by George L. Jackson
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt (2023) by Orisanmi Burton
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America (2021) by Keisha N. Blain
Get any/all of these books wherever you get your books.
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Please consider purchasing books when they are available from Workshops 4 Gaza's bookstore: Colonizing Kashmir (2023) by Hafsa Kanjwal, Soledad Brother (1970) by George L. Jackson, Tip of the Spear (2023) by Orisanmi Burton. When I share books that are available for purchase there at the time of posting, I will list them here after the link.
Thank you for reading.
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