Saturday, December 30, 2017

All of my 2017 book reviews!


In the spirit of looking back on the year that was, this post brings together all of the full book reviews I did in 2017. All are nonfiction books about the social world. Check 'em out, lefty book nerds!


  • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality by Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa and edited by AnaLouise Keating (Duke University Press, 2015) -- WRITTEN REVIEW // VIDEO REVIEW

  • Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton (Verso, 2016) -- WRITTEN REVIEW

  • Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure by Eli Clare (Duke University Press, 2017) -- WRITTEN REVIEW

  • Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism by L.A. Kauffman (Verso, 2017) -- WRITTEN REVIEW // AUDIO REVIEW

  • Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals by Jonathan Matthew Smucker (AK Press, 2017) -- WRITTEN REVIEW

  • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici (PM Press, 2012) -- WRITTEN REVIEW

  • Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence by Leanne Simpson (Arbeiter Ring, 2011) -- WRITTEN REVIEW

  • What Love Is: And What it Could Be by Carrie Jenkins (Basic Books, 2017) -- WRITTEN REVIEW

  • Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed (Duke University Press, 2017) -- WRITTEN REVIEW

  • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe (Duke University Press, 2016) -- WRITTEN REVIEW

  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Haymarket, 2016) -- WRITTEN REVIEW // VIDEO REVIEW

  • Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard (Fernwood, 2017). -- WRITTEN REVIEW // VIDEO REVIEW


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