A Celebration of Blackness

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You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
— James Baldwin

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Culture is What We Have In Common

Our “Cultural Connections” awake from the never-ending need to talk about what we’re reading within the larger context of society. It can also be used to write our personal histories into the lexicon. The posts you find on this page include a look back at cultural events and my general reading philosophy.

This also keeps with the goal of Black & Bookish:

TO SHOW THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO IDENTIFY AS BLACK ARE NOT A MONOLITH. 

Black people are as complex as any group of people, regardless of how we are portrayed in movies and in the media. Our diversity is masked only by the shared history of violence and racism. What we hope to discover from the aspects of culture are the shared values we possess due to our torrid past.

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Book Reviews with Strong Cultural Connections

Not all book reviews are the same. Some are more about the reader than the authors.

These reviews focus on how they show up life of the reviewers and how they were changed after discovering them.