{"title":"The Lakota People’s Law Project Decolonized Reading List for 2025","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"content-builder__subheading relative overflow-hidden  my-10\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"font-serif text-xl md:text-2xl lg:text-h4 font-bold leading-tighter \n            text-red \n            \n            rich-text\"\u003eWhether you’re an activist, an educator, or just a human being who wants to better understand this moment and how we got here, these tiles can help you learn, connect, resist, and inspire.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content-builder__copy relative overflow-hidden  my-10\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block text-base text-lg leading-tight font-serif \n            max-w-[35rem] \n            \n            rich-text\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt a time when many of us are looking for answers, inspiration, connection, and ways to get involved in our communities, the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/lakotalaw.org\/\" class=\"cursor-pointer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLakota People’s Law Project\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca class=\"cursor-pointer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacreddefense.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSacred Defense Fund\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e have put together a list of books to help you get there. In our journey together, by getting a better idea of where we’ve been, we can chart a clearer path forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis list of nonfiction books focuses on a variety of topics, including Indigenous-centered histories of Native America, Indigenous resistance, the decolonizing work of reconnecting us with the land and each other, and topics such as abolition, the Japanese American fight for reparations after internment, the work of AIDS activists, the LGBTQ2S revolution, the Black Panthers, the civil rights movement, the occupation of Puerto Rico, and how to build support and protection for marginalized and oppressed communities. Most of the authors are BIPOC, LGBTQ2S, and\/or women\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe book list is loosely organized into three parts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBooks about our relations with \u003cem\u003eUnci Maka\u003c\/em\u003e (our Grandmother Earth) and each other\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBooks about history\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBooks about organized resistance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more information on The Lakota People's Law Project - visit www.Lakotalaw.org\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"font-serif text-xl md:text-2xl lg:text-h4 font-bold leading-tighter \n            text-red \n            \n            rich-text\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003eMany Titles NOT available in store, online only.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"an-african-american-and-latinx-history-of-the-united-states","title":"An African American and Latinx History of the United States","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpanning more than two hundred years, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn African American and Latinx History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations like “manifest destiny” and “Jacksonian democracy,” and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, Ortiz links racial segregation in the Southwest and the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, known as International Workers’ Day, when migrant laborers—Chicana\/os, Afrocubanos, and immigrants from every continent on earth—united in resistance on the first “Day Without Immigrants.” As African American civil rights activists fought Jim Crow laws and Mexican labor organizers warred against the suffocating grip of capitalism, Black and Spanish-language newspapers, abolitionists, and Latin American revolutionaries coalesced around movements built between people from the United States and people from Central America and the Caribbean. 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Photojournalist Bryan Shih, who has been interviewing and taking portraits of the surviving Panthers around the country for years, has partnered with Yohuru Williams, dean and history professor at Fairfield University, to deliver the definitive celebration of the Black Panthers. Part oral history, part scrapbook, this is a beautifully produced book of forty-five black-and-white portraits of the Panthers today, alongside interviews with the surviving Panthers, archival images, Black Panther Party pamphlets and speeches, as well as essays by contributors such as Peniel Joseph, Alondra Nelson, Rhonda Williams, and other high-profile scholars to provide background and context.\"--Provided by publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of Barack Obama. -- Kevin Powell, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A brilliantly conceived volume. 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