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Tressie McMillan Cottom

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Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American writer, sociologist, and professor. She is currently an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and a faculty associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
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Accounting for Slavery
Masters and Management
Caitlin Rosenthal - 2018-08-27
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Learn how Southern planter-capitalists used early forms of scientific management to turn their power over enslaved people into a productivity advantage. Accounting for Slavery challenges the traditional depiction of slavery as a barrier to innovation, revealing how elite planters employed meticulous note-taking and experiments to improve daily profits and productivity. By analyzing old accounting books from Southern and West Indian plantations, the author provides a groundbreaking investigation of business practices in relation to slavery and capitalism.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
2021-04-01T04:28:04.000Z
@nilofer @watermelondriia Yep I really like this book. It resonates well with students and lay readers. You can tell she wants to be measured and even with her restraint the empirical story is so overwhelmingly resolute that it’s poignant      fuente
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Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya Hartman - 2007-01-09
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Travel along the slave route in Ghana and learn about the history of the Atlantic slave trade with Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother. Hartman reflects on the effects of slavery on African and African American history, and explores the idea that to lose your mother is to be severed from kin and forgotten history. With no known surviving relatives in Ghana, Hartman becomes an outsider searching for strangers and engaging with people along the way. Lose Your Mother is a powerful and deeply affecting exploration of the past.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
2020-11-23T17:09:23.000Z
@Staying_Sasha Two books I have next to that one that might help:      fuente
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Volver a casa
Yaa Gyasi - 2016-06-07
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Primera novela de la escritora estadounidense de origen ghanés Yaa Gyasi, la trama de esta cautivante historia de hondo calado humano se desarrolla en la costa suroccidental de África —la actual República de Ghana— y en Norteamérica desde el siglo XVIII hasta la presente. Hijas de una misma madre y de padres pertenecientes a dos etnias distintas, Effia y Esi son dos hermanas de sangre que nunca llegarán a conocerse. Sus caminos están irremediablemente destinados a separarse: así, mientras Effia es obligada a casarse con un gobernador inglés y a residir en una fortaleza junto a la costa, Esi es capturada y enviada como esclava al sur de Estados Unidos. La narración va trazando, pues, el devenir de las dos ramas de la familia, protagonistas de conmovedoras historias de aflicción, esperanza y superación en el marco de una serie de relevantes acontecimientos históricos: las guerras tribales, el negocio del cacao, la llegada de los misioneros, la Ley de Esclavos Fugitivos de 1850, la Gran Migración Negra, la lucha por los derechos civiles y el renacimiento de Harlem en los años veinte, hasta llegar a la epidemia de heroína de los setenta. Recibida con entusiasmo desbordante en Norteamérica, Inglaterra y Francia, la crítica especializada de ambos lados del Atlántico celebró la llegada de una voz nueva, límpida y potente, dotada de un especial talento para acercar al lector el microcosmos de los sentimientos más íntimos del individuo en su desigual lucha ante la aplastante fuerza de la Historia. Una lectura apasionante, diríamos irrenunciable, que sirve de carta de presentación de una nueva generación de autores de origen africano que, sin duda, dejada huella en la literatura de este siglo.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
2020-08-19T19:49:39.000Z
@jessicashortall @choo_ek That damn book will gut you in a good way.      fuente
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From Here to Equality
Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
William A. Darity - 2020-04-20
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"From Here to Equality" explores the persistence of racism and discrimination in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. The authors, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, make an innovative and comprehensive case for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. Using monetary values to measure historical wrongs, they offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program that includes substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery. Their assessment of three eras of injustice, slavery, Jim Crow, and modern-day discrimination, creates a powerful case for black reparations.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
2020-06-25T20:11:59.000Z
My first exposure to reparations was actually Randall Robinson's trilogy back in the day. But no one book has so clearly set out the history, meaning and urgency of economic reparations for Black people as does "From Here to Equality".      fuente
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The Economization of Life
Michelle Murphy - 2017-05-12
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The Economization of Life is a thought-provoking book that traces the rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy. Author Michelle Murphy delves into the history of postcolonial neoliberal techniques and how they led to the devaluation of certain lives. Through a powerful archive of data, Murphy challenges readers to rethink how we view the economy and population as a term of reproductive justice.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
2020-03-25T19:58:11.000Z
Just a good book generally      fuente