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Showing posts with label oppression. Show all posts

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: American Dream, class, coping with trauma/loss, historical, identity, justice, non-fiction, nonconformity, oppression, politics, race, sexuality, social criticism

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, art, class, coping with trauma/loss, creativity, fiction, gender, identity, justice, love, mental health, morality, oppression, race, search for self, social criticism

Deacon King Kong by James McBride (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: aging, alienation, class, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, race

How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith (NON-FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55643287-how-the-word-is-passed

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coping with trauma/loss, education, historical, identity, justice, morality, non-fiction, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, politics, race, social criticism

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, American Dream, class, identity, justice, morality, non-fiction, oppression, politics, race, social criticism

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: assimilation, colonialism/imperialism, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, historical, identity, justice, love, morality, nonconformity, oppression, politics, race, social criticism

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: class, gender, justice, morality, non-fiction, oppression, politics, race, social criticism

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, nonconformity, oppression, race, search for self

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: class, gender, identity, justice, morality, non-fiction, oppression, politics, race, sexuality, social criticism

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, American Dream, assimilation, class, consumerism, family, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, oppression, race, search for self

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet (NON-FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57693411-in-defense-of-witches

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: aging, alienation, gender, historical, identity, justice, love, media, mental health, non-fiction, oppression, politics, search for self, sexuality, social criticism

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76173.We

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, dystopian, fiction, identity, love, mental health, nonconformity, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, philosophy, politics, science (or sci-fi), search for self, social criticism, tech

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11529868-the-orphan-master-s-son

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, identity, justice, morality, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, politics, search for self, social criticism

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32920226-sing-unburied-sing

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, gender, identity, justice, memory, morality, oppression, race

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11371.It_Can_t_Happen_Here

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: dystopian, fiction, historical, justice, media, morality, nonconformity, oppression, politics, social criticism

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38463.If_Beale_Street_Could_Talk

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, American Dream, class, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, identity, justice, love, morality, oppression, race, social criticism

Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553843-hard-rain-falling

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, class, coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, identity, justice, morality, oppression, search for self, sexuality

The Power by Naomi Alderman (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: dystopian, fiction, gender, justice, morality, oppression, politics, revolution, social criticism

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703.The_Plot_Against_America

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, dystopian, family, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, oppression, politics, religion/spirituality

The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53925.The_War_of_the_End_of_the_World

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: class, colonialism/imperialism, fiction, historical, justice, morality, oppression, religion/spirituality, revolution, war

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