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monkeyfrog's review against another edition
challenging
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4.0
britney's review against another edition
5.0
An absolute must read. I thought I knew a lot about Angela Davis and her time as a political prisoner but this collecton of letters and essays is more enlightening than anything else I've read.
virginiawoof's review against another edition
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dimanabookmark's review against another edition
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4.5
maggiekou's review against another edition
5.0
As poignant and relevant as ever, this anthology captures such a keen sense of empowerment and resistance of the black community against the conspicuous and seemingly indestructible evils threaded into the very existence of our punishment system.
Oftentimes it seems that for many non-Black people (myself included) it is easier to be anti-racist when it's convenient for us. When racism and suffering are visible; when the death of POC is undeniable. Yet Davis shows its insidious nature: racism is all around us, imbedded into the power structures which maintain civil discourse. It is there in the polite language of white-dominated academia; it is everpresent in the diction of state laws that seek to criminalize and, by proxy, otherize Black people; it is omnipresent and must be challenged at all fronts.
What touched me most was Huey P. Newton's analysis of the geometry of human will, where the power of collective ideas and beliefs empowers a movement to be greater than the sum of the individual. Ultimately, If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance has taught me to treat the world around me critically and the people around me with compassion, and above all, to educate myself and fight for my peers who don't have the same opportunities as I do.
Oftentimes it seems that for many non-Black people (myself included) it is easier to be anti-racist when it's convenient for us. When racism and suffering are visible; when the death of POC is undeniable. Yet Davis shows its insidious nature: racism is all around us, imbedded into the power structures which maintain civil discourse. It is there in the polite language of white-dominated academia; it is everpresent in the diction of state laws that seek to criminalize and, by proxy, otherize Black people; it is omnipresent and must be challenged at all fronts.
What touched me most was Huey P. Newton's analysis of the geometry of human will, where the power of collective ideas and beliefs empowers a movement to be greater than the sum of the individual. Ultimately, If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance has taught me to treat the world around me critically and the people around me with compassion, and above all, to educate myself and fight for my peers who don't have the same opportunities as I do.
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5.0
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4.25