Sophie

Sophie , 1 month ago to bookstodon

Just finished “Record of a Spaceborn Few,” by Becky Chambers

Set in the same universe as (and with some references to) her “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet,” and “A Closed and Common Orbit,” this is a another lovely, humane look at community, belonging, history and intentionality.

🔭🚀🪐💜

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Sophie OP , 1 month ago

@cdfinder @bookstodon I thought I was forgetting one! Can you remind me of the 4th title? I’m honestly not sure I’ve read it yet

Sophie OP , 1 month ago

@cdfinder @bookstodon adding it to the TBR list 💜💜

Sophie , 4 months ago to bookstodon

Just finished “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America”

Learned a lot about the role of the NAACP in criminal cases in the Jim Crow South. So much bravery in the face of klan violence and systemized dehumanization. Will definitely be seeking out biographies of Thurgood Marshall soon.

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Sophie OP , 4 months ago

@MarvinFreeman @bookstodon I haven’t! Will check it out, thanks!

Sophie OP , 4 months ago

@DeborahForPlus @MarvinFreeman @bookstodon Thanks!

Sophie , 5 months ago to bookstodon

Just finished Kris Manjapra’s “Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation”

Fascinating and heartbreaking analysis of how #emancipation has always been a means of continuing slavery while pretending to eliminate it (via “indenture periods” and reparations to slavers for “property lost”) and how to move past this #history for a more #humane world

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Sophie OP , 5 months ago

@bookstodon some of my favorite #quotes

“Reparative justice demands ways of retelling the past that detect the voices previously consigned to the archival void; and of rewriting history in ways that matter to those voices and that make those voices matter to us”

Sophie OP , 5 months ago

@bookstodon another #quote

“Certainly, the focus on the long trajectory of slavery in the American South is a convenient narrative, allowing mainstream publics to disavow the active forms of enslavement, and the widespread social and political complicity, of Northern society. For contemporary Northerners, to forget about the North's involvement is also to shirk any need to take responsibility.”

jimkane57 , 5 months ago to bookstodon

What I am reading tonight... @bookstodon #books #bookstodon #russianhistory #czars #history #Bookwyrm

Sophie , 5 months ago

@jimkane57 @bookstodon I’ve been listening to his guest appearances on the podcast “Empire”. This book is definitely on my to-read list.

Sophie , 6 months ago to bookstodon

Just finished “How to Hide an Empire,” by Daniel Immerwahl

I’m often surprised by how much I don’t know, but this #book really astonished me with my own ignorance. I’m embarrassed to say how little I knew of US colonialism, territories, and global military bases

Immerwahl explains the post WWII #decolonization / #recolonization as a product of technological innovation in a clear (and very readable) way. Highly recommend!

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Sophie OP , 5 months ago

@karlcow @bookstodon It’s discussed at length. Book designs are what they are 🤷‍♀️

Sophie , 11 months ago

@weirdwriter @bookstodon sad trombone