Race & Ethnicity
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I am in a book group focused upon Jane Austin and all things historically surrounding the time. Today someone recommended a book by a conservative that am sure has a totally warped viewpoint on slavery, race and this country.
Is there a good book I can suggest for the group to read that speaks about slavery and also even Indigenous that is accurately historically focused and an enagaging read? Not looking for a novel but more of an educational based read.THX.
ancianita
(38,771 posts)edited by historians Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. (2021)
I taught African American Literature (foregrounded in the context of its history) for 30+ years, and this book blew me away in combining what/who we don't know with what we know. I had no idea how much more I would learn by reading it.
I also recommend 1619, but I think 400 Souls is more of a page turner.
PlutosHeart
(1,445 posts)Bayard
(24,145 posts)A good place to start is, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee." A few other suggestions "Stolen Continents", "Black Hills, White Justice", "Custer Died For Your Sins", and, "Killers of the Flower Moon," (Just saw the movie--the book is better.)
PlutosHeart
(1,445 posts)before he retired, was the Head of Indian Studies at a University. Taught history. So am familiar with some of what you recommended. Will check out Stolen Continents though. Mostly seeking trans- continental slavery based and related.
Good to know your thoughts about Killers of the Flower Moon movie vs book. On the good side if anything, it is showing at a newly renovated old theatre in this most conservative town right now. Might be good for educational purposes though, eh?
ancianita
(38,771 posts)Your husband probably knows all about it. Beautifully organized by city and region, and their cultural influence on those places today.
Bayard
(24,145 posts)Thx
people
(704 posts)I read Things That She Carried recently, which was great. That book is about a cloth bag made by a mother, who was a slave, for her daughter who was being sold. The bag is housed now in the Smithsonian Arican American Museum.
Timeflyer
(2,688 posts)Very enlightening. Read it when I was pretty young and undereducated. Shocked to learn that slaves were not allowed to be taught to read---can't imagine life without reading. Echoes of the Afghanistan Taliban attempts to keep women uneducated.
PlutosHeart
(1,445 posts)I may need to make that my birthday gift to myself.
wryter2000
(47,551 posts)I think it's Mansfield Park.
wryter2000
(47,551 posts)There's a movie in that time period about a black daughter of a wealthy Englishman being raised by his family after his death. Very Austen but about a young woman of color who has money trying to cope in that society. It's called "Belle,"
PlutosHeart
(1,445 posts)We are reading Paula Bryne's book Belle. The Slave daughter and The Lord Chief Justice.
The movie is good and yet encased in a palatable form of viewing for some which is not always so bad.
Paula was also one of the consultants on PBS's Sanditon. She is a nice person.
PlutosHeart
(1,445 posts)abolitionists. She was aware of slavery most certainly as was also indicated by her unfinished 11 Chaptered Sanditon. Which btw, I will recommend the tv series.
And yes, Mansfield Park.
iemanja
(54,831 posts)PlutosHeart
(1,445 posts)Am distraught over Clarance Thomas having his Bible. Or one of them. Ugh.