Reading the Crisis

Jul 25

Hackney Libraries are pleased to be collaborating with The Stuart Hall Foundation to offer a list of books relating to their Reading the Crisis online conversation series.

“The Reading the Crisis series asks: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to confront this conjuncture? This online conversation series seeks to advance Stuart Hall’s thinking by analysing a curated selection of three texts in relation to present-day political formations.”

Feel free to access this list before, during or after the events to further explore some of the ideas that may be discussed!

Books available to borrow from Hackney Libraries Selected Writings on Race and Difference by Stuart Hall The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation by Stuart Hall

Books available to borrow from Hackney Libraries Essential Essays vol 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies by Stuart Hall Essential Essays vol 2: Identities and Diaspora by Stuart Hall

Books available to borrow from Hackney Libraries Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: the Thought of Stuart Hall by Brian Meeks Reflections on Exile and Other Essays by Edward Said

Books available to borrow from Hackney Libraries Letters from London by C. L. R. James Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue by bell hooks and Stuart Hall

Books available to borrow from Hackney Libraries Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice by bell hooks Colonial Discourse and Post–Colonial Theory ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman

Books available to borrow from Hackney Libraries Race Critical Theories ed. Philomena Essed & David Theo Goldberg Revolutionary Feminisms by Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah

Books available to borrow from Hackney Libraries Rednecks and Barbarians: Uniting the White and Racialised Working Class by Houria Bouteldja Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi

Books available to borrow from Hackney Libraries Dispatches from the Diaspora: from Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge How We Get Free ed. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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Charlotte Geater

Reading the Crisis

Books for South Asian Heritage Month