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Books to Grow Your Brain
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items Readings to increase you in knowledge from liberation tools to stories of human journeys and lessons we learn
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Books that made me smart, in a few different ways
Palestine, colonialism, and the will for freedom
US Law and Right Erosion in the face of lawlessness
Books that made me smart, in a few different ways
Books on how to grow as a global person and individually
A necessary readings that uncovers a powerful framework from which to understand American history to the problems we face today
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Paperback
Again, a classic for basic financial literacy and its advice remains timeless. I use quite much of it myself!
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful ...
The book is definitely written for a western audience. The central argument claims that differences in institutions is the main driver of global inequality. There are extractive an inclusive institutions. But this book lacks attention to real world c...
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
To understand the surveillance state we currently live in, I’d recommend this book! Everything makes sense and our lack of privacy is understood as a form of government control
1984 by George Orwell, Paperback
Honestly this book seemed like a propaganda tool of a western doctor demonizing the people his country invaded and then implementing a savior complex. 1/10
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line - David Nott
Another great text on how we understand resistance movements in the face of expanding colonial forces! 8/10. The history and politics surrounding the movements made this so much make informational
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the ...
Palestine, colonialism, and the will for freedom
Books to understand the current genocide in palestine and its foundations
Necessary to understand how Palestinians, and those similarly subjugated, are forced into this dichotomy of either being too steadfast and undeserving of sympathy or being put up for slaughter and worthy of empathy after it’s too late. 8.5/10
Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd, Paperback
9/10
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction by Sumaya Awad, Paperback
Necessary boon to understand the construction of the colonial endeavor and the demonization of Palestinians resistance
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and ...
While I agree with the contents of the boon and the overall sentiment, I do find it inappropriate that a non Palestinian took an opportunity to profit off a genocide. I’d recommend choosing a book by a Palestinians.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (National Book ...
Foundational text to understanding the orientalized Middle East. Read this to learn about how Arabs/ Muslims were otherized by the west as explanation for future conquest; how tropes were created and reproduced; and how these underlying xenophobic rh...
Orientalism by Edward W. Said, Paperback
US Law and Right Erosion in the face of lawlessness
Books to understand the current state of American law making in an age of lawlessness
I think the title says it all. As a law student I appreciated the understanding and approaches to breaking down the courts and how they are operating to break down democracy
Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America|Hardcover
This book was written by a law teacher of mine. It is a perfect encapsulation of how the Supreme Court is engaging is advocacy based rulings which are regressing rights based freedoms. She also has a podcast which accompanies many parts of the book w...
Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe ...
Another foundational text highlighting the intersection and importance of collective liberation. This boon untangles how so many of our struggles are connected and the common threads between them! 9/10
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the ...
A great review correcting the inaccuracies we are taught and the functions they perform in preserving the fiction of empire 7/10
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got ...