A stack of books. At the top Elite Capture by Olufemi O. Taiwo, next homegrown by bell hooks & Amalia Mesa-Bains, next The Man Who Cried Genocide by William L. Patterson, next Freedom's Champion: Elijah Lovejoy by Sen. Paul Simon, next White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art by Maurice Berger, next White Trash ed. Matt Wray & Annalee Newitz, next The Book Before Printing by David Dirniger, next "Race," Writing, and Difference ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., next The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist, next Dealing with Deities: the Ritual Vow in South Asia ed. Selva Raj & William Harman, next Ulysses by some smutty little Irishman, next The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, next Populuxe by Thomas Hine with Portraits by Richard Avedon at the bottom. Lying in front of the stack is a slim pamphlet entitled A Catholic President? and the top half of an exhibit catalog for The Birth of the Banjo.
A pleasant hour browsing the local Unitarian church book sale and some nice finds. #BookSky #BooksaleSky (Hey, @haymarketbooks.org, THIS is what I'm reading this weekend. Elite Capture at the top!)