A review by lizetteratura
Reimagining the Revolution: Four Stories of Abolition, Autonomy, and Forging New Paths in the Modern Civil Rights Movement by Paula Lehman-Ewing

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

 5 ⭐ 

This is a book about justice: racial, social, and economic. But it is also an exploration of humanity.

Reimagining the Revolution is an informative, thought-provoking, and inspiring story about racism, activism, abolition, and societal revolution. In its entirety, Reimagining the Revolution is focused on ideas and movements concerned with racial justice, mostly occupied by the American prison-industrial complex, as a deep-rooted oppressive and dehumanising system supported by the USA's unwillingness to grapple with its history as a nation of colonisers and slaveowners (pg. xxxv). 

My voice appears as a guide throughout, but my goal is to amplify the voices of others, not speak for them or over them. 

Paula Lehman-Ewing's approach to this issue is admirable; the research is well conducted with great care in providing relevant information, both background and additional, in descriptive, precise, and simple language. In true allyship, Paula Lehman-Ewing uses her voice to amplify the testimonies of black people across the USA affected by the all-encompassing consequences of racism perpetuated by the white supremacist system of power. 

Thank you to NetGally and North Atlantic Books for providing me with an Advanced Readers Copy! For more information on the book and the project, go to https://reimaginingtherevolution.com/.