At 12:26 PM 5/5/2011, Dissenting Wren wrote:
>Not all of this is so very new, but...
>Manning Marable's new biography of Malcolm X
>Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom (about 15 years old, but new
>to me)
>- fine-grained history of civil rights organizing in Mississippi, focusing
>primarily on the period before Freedom Summer
>David Graeber, Direct Action (about 3-4 years old now) - ethnographic
>participant-observer account of anarchist organizing, focusing on the 2001
>Summit of the Americas in Quebec, with a very good theoretical conclusion
>James Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland
>Southeast Asia - fundamental rethinking of questions of state formation
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Sent: Wed, May 4, 2011 7:54:11 PM
>Subject: [lbo-talk] vaca reading
>
>it's that time again: tell me what to read!
>
>Anything you've seen lately on the new fiction or new non-fiction shelves
>that
>you've read or would like to? Any good social or political theory/philosophy
>books that everybody's reading. What about sociology Alan?
>
>Also, I'm up for totally trashy beach reading. And if Liza's reading, please
>send me your list of hilarious reads you once asked about on your facebook
>page.
>People sent in a slew of suggestions.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>
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