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All the Books that Blew My Mind in 2020, Part 1

So it turns out that 2020 was a pretty amazing reading year? I hadn’t really noticed because there were so many other things to occupy my brain, such as the quarantine and the election and the crumbling of American democracy, but in looking back at my reading spreadsheet I discovered that I had read a shocking number of books that needed a place on my Best Of list. There are, in fact, so many that it has necessitated me breaking this post down into two parts. This one covers my reading through like mid-June or something, and represents the number…

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Review: A Black Women’s History of the United States, Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross

So A Black Women’s History of the United States is the latest in a series from Beacon Press that I absolutely love. The first one I read was An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, which btw is also stupendous and y’all should all buy it. Since then I have acquired several other books in the series, so the queer one and the disability one are ON MY SHELVES WAITING FOR ME. Having read two of these books, I would like to report that they are both amazingly concise, readable, and filled with information. I would…

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