In this episode, Nashwa is joined by longtime online friend Zoé Samudzi to sit down and chat about anti-racist booklists, the need to buy from independent sellers, the surge in popularity of anti-racist books, diverse syllabi, Jessica Krug and the expanded universe of faking race in academia, and the Whitney Museum’s parasitic Mutual Aid project. We also share our love for another friend of the show Lauren Michele Jackson, and her piece What is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?; additionally, we highlight a piece from the Boston Review by Melissa Phruksachart entitled The Literature of White Liberalism. Another topic we touch upon is The Combahee River Collective Statement and the morphing role of the words identity politics. An informative piece about Warren B. Kanders, former art collector and vice chair of the Whitney Museum, can be found here. Lastly, we end by considering what happens or what we do with people who are race tourists, as well as Zoé’s top five dissertation writing songs.
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Guest Information:
Guest of the week: Zoé Samudzi
As detailed in this episode, Zoé is the co-author of a book with William C. Anderson titled As Black as Resistance (AK Press), which engages the anarchistic position of Black people in the United States. It can be ordered here.
Find Zoé on Twitter @ztsamudzi and check out her website.
Additional Resources:
As mentioned in the episode, here is a list curated by Zoé of good Latinx writing that isn’t American Dirt:
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
to love and mourn in the age of displacement by Alan Palaez Lopez
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
Cruel Fictions by Wendy Trevino
Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Robert Lovato
The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States edited by Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores
Black and Indigenous Owned Bookstores in America and Canada: https://secondstorypress.ca/wavemaker/2020/6/12/black-and-indigenous-owned-bookstores-in-canada-and-the-usa
Independent bookstores in Canada: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/canadian-independent-bookstores-delivery
Independent bookstores in America: https://www.newpages.com/independent-bookstores
Production Credits:
Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan
Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamerica
Art for Habibti Please by postXamerica
Production by Nashwa Lina Khan and Johnny Zapras
Production Assistance by Raymond Khanano
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Episode 2 with Zoé Samudzi