blurstoftimes's Reviews (61)

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

5.0

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After completing my near four-year journey of consuming Grandin’s indispensable trove of U.S. histories and mythologies, I feel confident saying that I have a decent understanding of how and why this country exists and how it will continue to operate before its eventual demise.

It brings me great displeasure to finish this incredible book directly after Donald Trump—a racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, demagogue, criminal, and rapist—is sworn in for a secondary term as U.S. President.

I feel equally confident in assuming that the next four years under him will leave indelible marks of destruction, disorder, and decay in the mottled fabric of America’s tumultuous cultural histories and paradoxical principles of freedom.

I only wish I had finished this book sooner.

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

5.0

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It is immensely tragic that the topics and issues that Davis eloquently addresses in this collection of essays are as pressing today as they were then, but it is also miraculous that we have access to these words of wisdom and maps of insight contained within this book and so many others by her.

This is how we know that the State has not won.

Startlingly relevant. More necessary than ever.

Read it.