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Some places, you never leave the same

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

September 28, 2020 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Kicking off my CBR12 Bingo with The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead for the RED book cover square. A beautifully written novel about a segregated Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era. All the boys never left The Nickel Academy the same as when they arrived. The novel flashes between the present and the past through Elwood’s eyes. Each chapter gives you a lyrical moment in time. We learn about the place in pieces, flashing forward to Elwood as an adult. As soon as […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: American History, based on true events, Black History, cbr12bingo, Colson Whitehead, Fiction, Florida, Jim Crow, red square, the nickel boys

teresaelectro's CBR12 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: American History, based on true events, Black History, cbr12bingo, Colson Whitehead, Fiction, Florida, Jim Crow, red square, the nickel boys ·
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cbr12bingo – Adaptation!

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

July 4, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

It is 1954, and a young man named Atticus is headed home to Chicago. In Chicago he will find his beloved uncle and aunt, who together run The Safe Negro Travel Guide and Travel Agency. His uncle, like himself, is a lover of pulp novels and dime store comics. His aunt travels the country alone, adding stops to the travel guide while looking at the stars. He’ll find his little cousin, a comic-book hound and talented artist. He’ll find his old friend Titia, who has […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 1950s America, adaptation, cbr12bingo, Chicago, comic books, cosmic horror, family tree, H.P. Lovecraft, Haunted House, hbo, Jim Crow, lovecraftian, magic, Matt Ruff, occult, pulp horror, Racism, salem, supernatural, tulsa massacre

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:68 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1950s America, adaptation, cbr12bingo, Chicago, comic books, cosmic horror, family tree, H.P. Lovecraft, Haunted House, hbo, Jim Crow, lovecraftian, magic, Matt Ruff, occult, pulp horror, Racism, salem, supernatural, tulsa massacre ·
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“The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend.”

The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

April 14, 2020 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Jo Kuan and her father figure Old Jin have gotten by pretty well, considering they are Chinese Americans in the deep South of 1890.  Old Jin works as a horse caretaker for a local wealthy family, and Jo has a talent for millinery, so she is hopeful for an apprenticeship at the shop she works.  However, she is abruptly fired one day due to her supposed overly-frank attitude with customers (“You make the customers uncomfortable”).  Old Jin is able to get her a position as […]

Filed Under: History, Young Adult Tagged With: American History, Chinese American, Georgia, historical fiction, Jim Crow, Southern, Stacey Lee, Victorian era, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: History, Young Adult · Tags: American History, Chinese American, Georgia, historical fiction, Jim Crow, Southern, Stacey Lee, Victorian era, YA, Young Adult ·
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Horror Against a Jim Crow Backdrop

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

December 22, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

I think I’ve read maybe one Lovecraft short story and didn’t particularly enjoy it but I found the concept behind this novel rather intriguing, and decided to pick it up. Of course, I then waited for over a year to read it … what can I say, as creative as I thought the approach would be, I wasn’t sure if I had enough context to enjoy it. The novel begins in the 1950s, as Atticus Turner returns home to Chicago after a stint in the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Jim Crow, lovecraft country, Matt Ruff

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:100 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Jim Crow, lovecraft country, Matt Ruff ·
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A Short History of White Women’s Complicity

Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

April 29, 2018 by ElCicco 2 Comments

In Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, historian Elizabeth Gillespie McRae makes a strong argument for white women’s vital role in protecting and perpetuating white supremacy and thwarting integration in the US. One hundred years ago, woman began to organize in ways that we would recognize from today’s resistance movements. They developed grassroots campaigns reaching out to other women and encouraging them to organize, to write letters, to publish, to speak up and to vote. They did this, however, […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, #history, Anti-Racism, ElCicco, Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Jim Crow, Mothers of Massive Resistance, non fiction, Race, ReadWomen

ElCicco's CBR10 Review No:17 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, #history, Anti-Racism, ElCicco, Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Jim Crow, Mothers of Massive Resistance, non fiction, Race, ReadWomen ·
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Two books so close as to be indistinguishable

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide; and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by Carol Anderson and Michelle Alexander

June 13, 2017 by ingres77 1 Comment

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Anti-Racism, Barack Obama, Carol Anderson, Carol Anderson and Michelle Alexander, civil rights, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, Michelle Alexander, politics, Race, Racism, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Slavery, The New Jim Crow, the war on drugs, White Rage

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:47 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Anti-Racism, Barack Obama, Carol Anderson, Carol Anderson and Michelle Alexander, civil rights, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, Michelle Alexander, politics, Race, Racism, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Slavery, The New Jim Crow, the war on drugs, White Rage ·
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