Political books from Jamaica
Recommended political books (2)
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If you are into political here are some political books from Jamaica for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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And Still I Rise by Doreen Lawrence, Margaret Busby EN
Country: North America / Jamaica
Jamaica
Description:
Since the murder of her son Stephen in 1993, Doreen Lawrence has campaigned for justice for Stephen and for other victims of racially-motivated crimes. In this book, she describes the unimaginable events of 1993 and the years that followed as they happened to her.
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Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine EN
Country: North America / Jamaica
Jamaica
Description:
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter. The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric, the essay, and the visual in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is cont... continue