Just spent the evening doing spot-research to fill in some gaps for a presentation on local minstrel shows and their intriguing homegrown dimensions… I feel like I need either a shower or a diuretic.

Pretty sure I’m gonna shock the living hell out of some undergrads on Monday.

#BlackHistory #HistoryOfRacism #GuestLecture #Histodons

[The Washington Post] Was your home once off-limits to non-Whites? These maps can tell you.
Was your home once off-limits to non-Whites? These maps can tell you. #DC #maryland #racism #historyofracism #reparations

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/12/17/racial-covenants-mapping/

My #Top4Books of 2022

All of these books share a common theme of displacement, diaspora, the human struggle for normalcy even against all odds. Those odds being, of course, the pain and horrors human beings inflict on each other and usually on innocent people, for nothing more than a sense of superiority.

But then, there is the human need for community and how community comes around the table, sharing the flavors of home. Even in abject poverty, food unites.

1. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2. The Beekeeper if Aleppo by Christie Lefteri
3. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
4. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

#books #freePalestine #diaspora  #Cyprus #CivilWar #read #historical #Fiction #booklover #BooksOfMastadon #reader #ForcedSterilization #HistoryOfRacism #Syria #Refugees