Ep. 288 Just Presenting the Facts with Michael Harriot

October 11, 2023October 17, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Columnist and commentator Michael Harriot joins The Stacks to talk about his book Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America. Michael reveals why he wanted to write a book about American history told from the perspective of Black people, how he thinks of connecting to his audience, and what makes this moment different than other moments in American history.

The Stacks Book Club selection for October is Tar Baby by Toni Morrison. We will discuss the book on October 25th with Minda Honey.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

Black AF History by Michael Harriot
Michael Harriot on Twitter/X
Black Folk by Blair LM Kelley
Center for the Study of the American South at UNC
Carol Anderson
The King James Bible
Red Summer
Ida B. Wells
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett
Ebony Magazine
Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Lin-Manuel Miranda Addresses Claims That Hamilton Glorifies Slave Owners” (Erica Gonzales, Bazaar)
sarah huny young
Moses Dickson
The Gullah
Biphasic sleep
Drapetomania
Pharrell Williams
Michael Harriot on The Grio
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
Allow Me to Retort by Elie Mystal
W. E. B. Du Bois
Black AF History by Michael Harriot (audiobook)

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Ep. 273 Oreo by Fran Ross — The Stacks Book Club (Hannah Oliver Depp)

June 28, 2023June 29, 2023 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Loyalty Bookstores owner Hannah Oliver Depp returns to discuss our June book club pick Oreo by Fran Ross. We talk about the history and context of this 1974 satire, including the story of Fran Ross herself. We wonder how to categorize this novel about a Black and Jewish teenaged girl who finds her self in man precarious situations, and we ask what to make of a book that pokes fun at just about everyone.
There are spoilers in this episode.

Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our book club pick will be for July 2023.

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Oreo by Fran Ross
Loyalty Bookstores
Theseus
Oreo by Fran Ross (audiobook)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim
Samuel Beckett
James Joyce
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Donald Barthelme
Ann Grifalconi
Greyfalcon House Publishing
Paul Beatty
Danzy Senna
Marlon James
Mat Johnson
“An Overlooked Classic About the Comedy of Race” (Danzy Senna, The New Yorker)
“Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)
Toni Morrison
Roots by Alex Haley
Roots Miniseries (ABC)
Richard Pryor
Janelle Monáe
‘picaresque’ definition
Robin Miles
The Trees by Percival Everett
Emmett Till
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
Push by Sapphire
“The Great Deflector” (Scott Saul, LA Review of Books)
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

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Ep. 141 White Male Mediocrity with Ijeoma Oluo

December 9, 2020September 6, 2022 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Our guest today is the New York Times Bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo. She joins us to discuss her new book Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America. We talk about who Ijeoma writes for, how she practices accountability, and the types of value judgements that have become the bedrock of white supremacy.

The Stacks Book Club selection for December is Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, we will discuss the book with Darnell Moore on December 30th.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Henry Ford
Dave Zirin
Welcome to the Terrordome by Dave Zirin
Dave Zirin at The Nation
Cliven Bundy
Ijeoma’s Twitter
Sarah Hagi
George Floyd
Breonna Taylor
W. E. B. Du Bois
Red Summer
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Shit, Actually by Lindy West
The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
“Ep. 106 Samantha Irby//Wow, No Thank You” (The Stacks)
The Stacks’ Antiracist Reading List
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
White Identity Politics by Ashley Jardina
Eartha Kitt

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The Stacks Book Club — August 2020

August 1, 2020August 1, 2020 ~ TheStacksPodcast ~ Leave a comment

Its time for a favorite annual tradition around these parts. Every year we read a Toni Morrison novel for The Stacks Book Club, and this year we’re reading Sula.

Sula, written in 1973, is the story of a relationship between two girls, Nel Wright and Sula Peace, and the ways their friendship evolves and complicates as they grow up. The book asks questions about betrayal and loyalty, and how these ideas are often more complex than they appear. Sula is not only about the relationships between the two women, but also the family trauma they come from, the community they are raised in, and the societal expectations of Black femininity.

We will be discussing Sula on the podcast on Wednesday, August 26th, and you can find out who our guest will be buy listening to the podcast on August 5th. If you’d like even more discussion around the book consider joining The Stacks Pack on Patreon and participating in The Stacks’ monthly virtual book club.

As always, we want to hear from you, so please reach out with your thoughts, questions, and things you want to hear discussed on the podcast. You can email us at thestackswithtraci@gmail.com, comment on this post, or reach out through Instagram @thestackspod.

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