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A review by archytas
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
4.5
I really enjoyed this book, which a strange thing to say for a book motivated by such urgent and deep injustice. So, not happy that there was a need for this book in 1972, and not happy that it remains relevant today (nor that one of the writers, now 79-year-old Ruchelle Magee, remains incarcerated four decades later).
But it is a fresh breath of air to read. The prose here hits straight and hard, a call to arms and a refusal to cede space. The book was not published for posterity. It is written with urgent specifics - to support the acquittal of Angela Davis, Magee, Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale, among others. It is a window into another time, and yet, it often feels, that it is one in which basic realities: that policing entrenches systemic racial injustice - were spoken about more clearly.
But it is a fresh breath of air to read. The prose here hits straight and hard, a call to arms and a refusal to cede space. The book was not published for posterity. It is written with urgent specifics - to support the acquittal of Angela Davis, Magee, Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale, among others. It is a window into another time, and yet, it often feels, that it is one in which basic realities: that policing entrenches systemic racial injustice - were spoken about more clearly.