underrated books on race and racism (that i'll be discussing in the future)
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Hello - I'm a librarian and I recently found your channel. Your videos on diverse classics is helping me select more diverse stories for my "Young Adult Classics" section. I have been actively buying books written by American POC authors, but your videos have introduced me to international titles that will help my library as well. Many thanks! -- P.S. Love the clothes!
Oh it makes me so so happy to hear that! I'm glad that I could have been of help in such a way!!
And thank you very much!! :D
I love your outfits
On DuBois: I reccomend also reading Anna Julia Cooper’s book : A Voice From the South by a Black Woman of the South. It was written in 1895, Cooper was the 4th African American woman to get a PhD and DuBois straight up stole/plagiarized a lot of her ideas when he wrote Souls. She doesn’t get enough credit for informing his thought
This!!!
The fact that I studied Souls of Black Folk at university and was never made aware of this speaks volumes 👀
I find the idea that a white woman would come here to state *definitively* that DuBois, one of the most renowned and well respected early black public intellectuals, in fact just "stole" his ideas from someone else kind of weird. But hey, maybe that's just me.
I'm going to look up more info on Afropean and Don't Touch My Hair, they sound so interesting.
Don't Touch My Hair is such a fantastic read and Emma Dabiri is such a star. I really appreciated the Irish experience elements she touches on in the book too!
I’m so happy to see you uploading so regularly, I love your videos (and outfits)!
Same!
"The Souls of Black Folk" is one of the books I currently have on my Kindle to read, so I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it.
I have been educating myself on natural hair for a couple of years now, ever since I had an African American roommate and we would discuss hair. At the time, though, it was merely an overview and I wanted to learn more. So, I started following several natural hair channels here on TH-cam as a way to educate myself. I think natural hair is stunningly beautiful and I am now going to pick up "Don't Touch My Hair" so that I can educate myself even further.
Looove the influx of uploads recently! I noticed there’s a certain set of books that people recommend in the anti-racist and black history genre, but I found a lot of them are fairly basic, and people don’t seem to think about what to read after those books? Anyone else feel this too? I don’t mean those books are bad or shouldn’t be recd, I just think there’s a lot more one can do after reading So You Want to Talk About Race and the like.
I’d only heard of two of the books on your list and I’ll be adding the others to my to-read pile as well! Thanks!
I’m new to your channel, but I just wanted to say that I think you’re such a breath of fresh air on booktube. I really appreciate the amount of time and care you put into your videos. Keep it up, you’re amazing 😊
That top, skirt, and the entire look is amazing! Books added to the TBR and I look forward to the discussions! "The rise of the Karens" is too accurate.
And Amy Coopers
This is great! I can’t believe how much top tier content you put out in quick succession
I love your content! It's like having a nice chat with a friend about books :) and I'm loving the 40s vibe of your hair today!!
I am living for the outfit introduction in the begging of the video!! You snapped sis 💅🏾💅🏾💅🏾
superrrrr need a full hair tutorial for this LOOK! As always, I appreciate your thoughtfulness in selecting these books and how you share them with us!
ah thank you very much!! 🤗✨ And I think it would be fun to do some more hair tutorials! :)
My Goodreads tbr has grown exponentially because of you
Your hair always looks so beautiful and I love your style. This is a fantastic video, I'll defo be keeping an eye out for these when buying more! Thank you for highlighting some lesser seen resources!
I had heard of Don't touch my hair! I must search for it!
Thank you so much for your recommendations! A few are on my TBR already, I've added the others. And I love your outfits.
Thank you for having this channel 😩. I’ve been trying to get back into reading but I didn’t know where to start.
that dress is OUTSTANDING. aside from your amazing wardrobe, than you for this concise list! it was an amazing resource on some books I had not yet discovered!
Thank you so much for sharing these! So many of them I haven’t heard of before so I’m very happy to be adding them to my TBR ❤️
Re: "The Souls of Black Folk" -- I've begun reading parts of "The New Negro" which is similarly an earlier American text on race. I'm finding it so informative to work my way through the ways in which people have been writing about race for decades and not just today; it really helps with my trying to better understand the conversation on race of which I've been ignorant. Also really enjoying looking at publications from the 60s and 70s on race, as they're also really informative, especially when they disagree with each other.
Thanks for recommending some lesser known reads! I’m excited to check out Don’t Touch My Hair and The Dark Fantastic
Really want to read the dark fantastic now, sounds fascinating, thank you for the recommends. Also I love your "outfit dance" amazing!
I love your outfit! I'll be checking out Biased and Don't touch my hair, it sounds so interesting
Afropean sounds very interesting and much needed as well.
I can also recommend Plantation Memories by Grada Kilomba. From the back: " [...] a compilation of episodes exploring everyday racism as a psychological reality."
I found it really interesting and also very accessible, compared, for instance, with White Innocence by Gloria Wekker.
Thank you for recommending and linking the talk associated with “They Were Her Property” by Stephanie Jones-Rogers! I just finished it, and it was truly enlightening. I really want to read her book now!
I recently found your channel and love it! Thank you for the recommendations and I'm so excited to look into your diverse classics recommendations as well.
I hadn't heard of most of these! Thank you so much for the great recs - they're all going on my tbr list. (Also, that skirt is perfection!)
I've got Afropean on hold from the library and loved Don't Touch my Hair. Adding Biased to my list.
Great outfit! Sian xx
Omg, I love your outfits!!!!!!! Also, thanks for all your book recommendations. I'm working on diversifying my reading a your recommendations are a huge help.
Thanks for highlighting these books, I've added Biased, The Dark Fantastic and Don't Touch My Hair to my TBR.
I'm particularly interested in Don't Touch My Hair, as my niece comes across the problem of people trying to touch her hair on a daily basis. I was stunned when she shared this piece of information with me years ago (it just wouldn't even enter my head to do that) and even more so that people would get defensive / aggressive if she objected.
That outfit looks super cute!!! Honestly, I am so interested in your video topics and I am so mad that youtube has never recommended you to me before. I will be adding you to Goodreads as well (I am adding that Japanese book to my TBR asap it sounds so good). Edit to add: I will be adding the recs in the video to my tbr list too.
Loved this video! Will definitely be picking some of these up, especially They Are Her Property and Don't Touch My Hair
i love your outfit and your overall style! all of the books you talk about here are on my tbr now and i can't wait to read them. great video
I can't believe I just assumed I had instantly followed you across all your platforms. I've been missing out on so much 😭 Mistake fixed, and I can't wait to keep up with all your reading from now on!
Ok I officially love this channel. Its educational, has cute outfits, and has such a soothing and comfortable atmosphere even when discussing some more difficult topics. I absolutely love this!
loooved your outfit, and this video. that's crazy about your hair story, it's truly a coming of age journey somewhat for black femininity. thank you for sharing xo
Your outfit is incredible and I really enjoy you showing it off at the start! This collection of books is brilliant and I have added the majority to my TBR so thank you!
What a great list of reading options. I'll definitely try as many as I can find. Thanks for another super video!
You look amazing! The outfit, the hair style, the headband.... I also really appreciate this video because I've already read many of the big ones that are sold out at the moment, and I'm always looking for more educational resources on the subject. Added you on goodreads!
I’m gonna see if my library has these available. Great video Seji.
I’ve seen you around booktube and finally subscribed! That you for the recommendations, definitely adding a few to my goodreads and following you there ☺️
Don't Touch My Hair has been on my radar for a while, I'm definitely going to be getting it now. Afropean I hadn't heard of, it sounds fascinating!
Thank you for all this wonderful recommendations! I was aware of only one of these books so it's great to learn about so many other books out there dealing with race and racism. As always, the amount of thought and care you put into your videos shines through!
Awesome video! I had never heard of any of these texts Afropean sounds so interesting I might have to pick it up myself.
Whoops... I had bought and am currently reading a lot of the tops sellers (Been trying to get through So You Want to Talk About Race since Feb) but The Dark Fantastic has now stolen its way into my cart... WHOOPS. An Unkindness of Ghosts is probably one of my favorite reads of this year, so I convinced myself to start on Octavia Butler now too! I also have to say, I LOVE your intros showing your clothes now! Gives me similar vibes your dancing vids. And those are literally SO REFRESHING!!! I love them, but I also love these recommendations! I live in the US so a lot of my books are still very US-centric. I will hopefully rectify this soon!
I'm so glad I found your channel, I'm just gonna add all your recommandation to my list.
My tbr was just blessed 🙌🏼 thanks for making this video! ✨
Even though I was aware of a couple of these I only had The Souls of Black Folk on my TBR. After hearing your summaries I am now interested in all of them. I am especially looking forward to reading Twisted, The Dark Fantastic, They Were Her Property, and Afropean.
I've been binging your channel, and I love your videos so much! I've collected so many books for my TBR. Also, I love how you show your outfit at the beginning of each video, it's always on point.
Ah I'm so happy to hear that! Thank you very much!! :)
Love your look, especially this HAIR!
The most underrated book I've ever read, which turned out to be wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time is "Part of my heart went with him" by Winnie Mandela! Suggest for everyone to read this beautiful and raw book 🙏🏼
I'm currently reading Don't Touch My Hair and it's really good so far. Looking forward to your in-depth thoughts on all of these books 😊
Yeah it's great! My book is full of notes, so I'm really looking forward to creating the video :D
Love you and your videos so much. I'm so glad to have found your channel!! Can't wait to share these with my students.
Thank you, it's much appreciated!!
And sharing with your students?! I'm very honoured to hear that!! 🥺
These sound all interesting to take a look at, thank you for sharing these books which haven't been talked about as much! Twisted had been a book I wanted to read due to a review I saw, but Afropean also sounds interesting! Also I'm curious about that talk you mentioned, thank you for linking that :)
Thank you for the recommendations, looking forward to working through them myself and getting to hear your thoughts on them!
thank you for posting about this. i'm interested to learn more about how black people (and people of color by extension) are affected by racism in countries outside of the US. i've learned a lot about japanese police corruption and it's really eye opening so i hope to learn more globally. thank you for such insightful discussions, seji!
Just want to say I love your videos and I'm so glad I found your channel x
Wonderful video, as always Seji! I'm really interested in checking out Afropean because I'm looking for books about the black experience in Italy - or more generally in Europe and I'm truly having a hard time finding them :/
Thank you so much for the video and these recommendations! I added them all to my TBR.
I am so glad I found you because you got in my yt recommend page! A black booktuber based in the Netherlands? Definitely subscribed!
haha updating goodreads daily. It's a lifestyle. I am very interested to read Twisted/Don't Touch My Hair. The only time it is acceptable to touch people's hair without first asking is if you are a small kid because they touch everything. I hear this all the time and I am flabbergasted. Biased sounds very good. It is so hard to sometimes see our own unconscious biases.
How many friggin times did Bonnie die? It was absurd. We definitely focus on white men when we talk about racism so that is definitely important.
I was funnily thinking that I really appreciate your perspective as you are Dutch and I have only really seen Black representation in North America or in Africa. And then you started talking about Afropean. So I want to make that one a priority. As always love your videos, thoughts and recommendations
Deeeeeffffinitely reading They Were Her Property. Thanks!
thank you so much for this video!!! top tier!!! i look forward to checking these out!!!
Hi! If you're looking for books to read alongside The Souls of Black Folk, I highly highly recommend Saidiya Hartman's work (read Scenes of Subjectiom first!) and then I also recommend Christina Sharpe's book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. These books changed my life and they rewired my brain. The writers are American literary scholars, but these texts move between genre and discipline into history, philosophy. Also recommend Dionne Brand's book Map to the Door of No Return. It's a hybrid work (poetry-ish and prose) but it's great to read along with the other books I recommended. And as always: Fanon. Great video! I just found your channel recently and it's so nice to see/find Black girls on Booktube 🥺 y'all make me excited.
I was wondering why I wasn’t getting notifications for you. You’re the third person I’ve been unsubscribed from that I didn’t do... really weird. I really enjoyed these recommendations and I can’t wait to hear you discuss them I also want to educate myself on racial history. These sound really good. Your hair looks really great btw
I’m really interested in reading An Underground Life (and all of these tbh). I’d love to read it in the Patreon book club!
I agree so much with what you said about the lack of discussion and literature about racism in Europe! I live in France (and I'm white) and it's daunting to realize how easy it is to know so much about race in the US... and basically nothing about race in my country (or other European countries for that matter). I started reading "La condition noire" by Pap Ndiaye to remedy that situation and I am adding Afropean to my TBR. Dark fantastic also sounds amazing!
I have Don’t Touch My Hair on Libby & I’m really looking forward to it because I know it explores how black hairstyling can be used as an allegory for oppression & liberation so sounds like it’s going to be a good read. Have Also added The Souls Of Black Folk to my tbr.
I loved this review, I just bought Afropean yesterday. I recently discovered your channel and just wanted to say as someone questioning whether they are neurodiverse your other video on your experience with that was really meaningful. Seeing you expell the myth that such people can’t be girls, can’t laugh or joke, is really encouraging. I thought I couldn’t be autistic if I didn’t fit a certain mould. Not that there’s anything wrong with those serious autistic people of course but seeing someone who I relate to to a certain extent who also thinks they might be neurodiverse meant a lot.
I’m so happy I found your channel!
these all sound really interesting! a book i want to get to that i don't see talked about that much is 'the heart of race: black women's lives in britain' by beverley bryan, stella dadzie, and suzanne scafe!
Very informative video. My son is 8 and last night we were watching a movie and immediately he knew the black guy in the movie was going to die and when he died he was extremely upset. He's 8 and he is already aware of how black people are handled & mistreated in film. Also I am a 4c natural hair chick and I have a ton of hair stories 🙄 so glad to have discovered your channel 🖤
A few of these, like Don't Touch My Hair, were on my list. They all look really interesting! Have you read Superior by A. Saini? I really want to. And Afropean, yes! Since so many books that focus on race and racism seem to come from the States, I was happy to see some that were looking at Europe, where the experience of black people and the kinds of racism they face may differ from country to country. Followed you on Goodreads (and noticed we're in the same country xD)
They Were Her Property sounds like a must read! I will definitely be picking it up
I hadn't heard of any of these before, and they all sound very interesting. They're definitely going on my tbr. Thanks for the recommendations. ^-^
looking forward to reading all of these, especially "the souls of black folk"!
Just found your channel. You are amazing! You deserve so many more subscribers.
I love that the outfit is part of the video! I might actually wear all my clothes of I dressed nice for my videos 🤣😂🤣
Thank you so much for this list. My TBR is exploding! 😊😊😊
Absolutely love your style! Thanks for being awesome!
My tbr is growing exponentially, thanks to you. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lots of interesting titles here, thanks for sharing and I’ll look forward to hearing more of your thoughts when you get to them.
as someone studying media I am definitely going to get my hands on The Dark Fantastic. I think it’s so important as a non black person trying to create media for me to read about this history of representation in pop culture. thank you for this recommendation I haven’t heard it being talked about!
especially afropean! I hope I can get access to it at my library or elsewhere!
Some lesser known underrated books on racism are Harriet A. Washington's books on medical racism (mostly in the US): Medical Apartheid (which is mainly about how the bias in the health care system and how black people have been experimented on unethically and without informed consent and abused, like the Syphilis experiment). The second one is A Terrible Thing to Waste, I'm reading that right now and it's fascinating and so angering, and it's about the effect of environmental hazards and pollution on IQ and especially on black people whose concerns about environmental pollution aren't taken seriously and who are often explicitly put in the way of dangerous pollutants (such as the Baltimore lead poisoning of children).
I loved the Souls of Black Folk!! Excited for you to read it. (:
I really enjoyed your video, your content, I'm subscribing to your channel.
I always felt interested about why those differences between black and white, why some of my friends doesn't matter what they are doing even walking need to be stopped by police. When they've done nothing wrong. And I'm researching about black lives matter movement for one of my modules at university. So I'm writing down many of the titles you recommend. Especially Afropean. I've lived in England for the last 3 years but I'm from Spain. I want to think, to believe that things are changing within my country but racism is still there. I've read a book but I don't think it has been translated to English, it's called 'Mujer negra en España' the narrator is a woman from Ecuatorial Guinea and she was born in Spain and she explained in a whole chapter about her hair and how sometimes it seems that curly hair is not accepted and you need to straight it. That's just awful, and I think sadly is still out there in how many TV shows black women and girls have their hair straighten and I have some friends, not all of them, but few still feel that to go for a job or interview its better to have the hair straight and it takes them hours to do it and using this damaging products. (sorry for this long message😅)
I hadn't heard of The Dark Fantastic before, added it to my ever growing TBR! Cheers!
Requesting "Biased" on audio from my library. Thank you!
Afropean is definitely going on my list!! ive been looking for literature on race and racism that focuses specifically on european contexts.
So great to hear! Yeah I have been finding more and more books on that, hoping to share them soon :)
I’ve heard of Don’t Touch My Hair! I should read that one.
Thanks for providing a different set of books discussing race. I especially appreciate the historical aspects you provided surrounding these books.
Thank you for the recommendation of The Dark Fantastic! I used to watch a lot of WWE wrestling, and would gather with a group of friends to watch one of the big PPV each year. Without fail, as soon as three black wrestlers would enter the ring, my black friends would start joking-but-not-really about that fact and would start predicting which wrestler would be tossed out next. Sure enough, within the next few minutes, a black wrestler would be eliminated. I feel like that's a common theme that is applied across lots of types of media - there are never multiple black people shown on screen/in books without one of them being removed in some way :( Interested to see what the book has to say on that
I think I watched a Ted talk on Don't Touch my Hair a while back. I had no idea this was a problem. It's insane and infuriating!
Thank you for these! There were several that were new to me and I would very much like to check out.
I have to recommend this video to EVERYONE!
Thanks for the recommendations! I'm attempting to educate myself, but everything is either checked out from the library or/and sold out. Maybe I can get some of these titles quicker. :)
The soul of black folk and afropean are already in my TBR. Don't touch my hair sounds great. When we were in a train in India, my partner was in one compartment sleeping and I was in another with some friends talking. After a while, he came to our compartment to ask me why I was playing with his hair earlier. I never left my compartment with my friends...
Twisted, Biased, The Dark Fantastic and Afropean sound very interesting, can’t wait to pick them up! 💙💙