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2025 Reading Goal
26% complete! Eric Beckman has read 7 of 26 books.
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Eric Beckman wants to read Captive Cosmopolitans by Mary E. Hicks
Eric Beckman started reading Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera
Eric Beckman started reading Denmark Vesey's Bible by Jeremy Schipper
Reading Seller's Market Revolution piqued my interest in the Denmark Vesey conspiracy, and Princeton University Press has a 50% off sale that includes this title!
Eric Beckman wants to read Stono by Mark M. Smith
Eric Beckman finished reading The Market Revolution by Charles Sellers
Eric Beckman started reading The Market Revolution by Charles Sellers
Eric Beckman quoted Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie
As Reconstruction played out, freedom proved to be zero-sum: any increase in Black freedom meant a decrease in white freedom. Anything that challenged white prerogatives was understood as the path to Balck domination. To speak of emancipation today without historicizing and understanding efforts by whites to recapture their freedom to dominate, without seeing how emancipation of African Americans was made into the oppression of whites, is to fail to understand a central problem of American history."
— Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie (Page 119 - 120)
Eric Beckman started reading Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie
Relvant to the current moment
Eric Beckman finished reading The Age of Garvey by Adam Ewing
interesting, rewarding read. Ewing argues that we need to look beyond the spectacular rise and stumble of Garvey and the Black Star Line to the deep influence of his ideas in the US and in Africa. Garvey and his movement embraced a less confrontational but very determined response to White supremacy that nurtured resistance to colonialism in Africa and White surpremacy in the US.
Eric Beckman started reading The Age of Garvey by Adam Ewing
I've started a bunch of books this year. Given the state of the world reading about resistance to racism, as world history, seems like the right move. Will finish this.
