New Date!
Hello bookworms!
Due to a family emergency the next nonfiction book group meeting is being rescheduled to Sunday, March 29th. If you have not finished the book, please do so in preparation for this meeting in March.
We had an interesting initial discussion in January for our DRUUMM NonFiction Book Club Group!
In it we discussed Part One. The Long Attica Revolt. of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton.
For March, we will be reading Part Two. Prison Pacification. which is pages 119 to 223 if you are using the Paperback Edition. You may also read the Epilogue at the end of the book, which we always recommend doing.
Finally, I want to point out that this is our last set of readings which will result in us completing the book. As such, I want to provide a list of four books that could be our next read. These are suggestions that will be brought up in our next meeting, please look into the ones you are interested in. We are not limited to these four books, so please, bring your own recommendations for our next read to discuss with the group.
Next Book Club Reads?
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
We hope you can join us in our final discussion!
See you on the page,
DRUUMM Book Club
"Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized tradition of Black radicalism that propelled rebellions in New York prisons during the 1970s. The reaction to this revolt illuminates what Burton calls prison pacification: the coordinated tactics of violence, isolation, sexual terror, propaganda, reform, and white supremacist science and technology that state actors use to eliminate Black resistance within and beyond prison walls.
"Burton goes beyond the state records that other histories have relied on for the story of Attica and expands that archive, drawing on oral history and applying Black radical theory in ways that center the intellectual and political goals of the incarcerated people who led the struggle. Packed with little-known insights from the prison movement, the Black Panther Party, and the Black Liberation Army, Tip of the Spear promises to transform our understanding of prisons—not only as sites of race war and class war, of counterinsurgency and genocide, but also as sources of defiant Black life, revolutionary consciousness, and abolitionist possibility."
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