Reading the Crisis
Hackney Libraries and the Stuart Hall Foundation have collaborated on a reading list related to their online conversation series Reading the Crisis.
Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue
bell hooks and Stuart Hall
In an awesome meeting of minds, cultural theorists Stuart Hall and bell hooks met for a series of wide-ranging conversations on what Hall sums up as “life, love, death, sex”.
From the trivial to the profound, across boundaries of age, sexualities and genders, hooks and Hall dissect topics and themes of continual contemporary relevance, including feminism, home and homecoming, class, black masculinity, family, politics, relationships, and teaching.
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to Black feminism and its impact on today’s struggles.
Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought
Brenna Bhandar & Rafeef Ziadah
In a moment of rising authoritarianism, climate crisis, and ever more exploitative forms of neoliberal capitalism, there is a compelling and urgent need for radical paradigms of thought and action. Through interviews with key revolutionary scholars, Bhandar and Ziadah present a thorough discussion of how anti-racist, anti-capitalist feminisms are crucial to building effective political coalitions.
Rednecks and Barbarians: Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class
Houria Bouteldja
In Europe and North America, we see a trend of the white working-class tempted by right-wing political parties. Fascistic candidates and ideas seem to reap the fruits of social unrest everywhere.
With her usual thought-provoking and unyielding analyses, Houria Bouteldja shows how the history of the left explains this conundrum and how we can overcome it.
Drawing from Black radical and decolonial Marxism, she shows that by privileging white constituencies, unions and left parties laid the foundations for a racial contract that binds workers and the poor to the state.
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
Lola Olufemi
This is a volume of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imagine. In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be.
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
Gary Younge
A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation’s leading political voices. For the last three decades Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora: accompanying Nelson Mandela on his first election campaign, joining revellers on the southside of Chicago during Obama’s victory, entering New Orleans days after Hurricane Katrina or interviewing Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou, and Stormzy.