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Let This Radicalize You Workbook

Let This Radicalize You Workbook

Let This Radicalize You Discussion Guide

Let This Radicalize You Discussion Guide

September: Surviving Together

Let This Radicalize You: 

  • Foreword by Maya Schenwar

  • Introductions by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba

  • Chapters 1-3

Let This Radicalize You workbook:

  • Pp. 6-31

Our History Has Always Been Contraband:

  • Colin Kaepernick, Preface

  • Robin D.G. Kelley, “On Racial Justice, Black History, Critical Race History, and other Felonious Ideas”

  • Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor, “Black Studies is Political, Radical, Indispensable, and Insurgent”

October: Building Movements 

Let This Radicalize You: 

  • Chapters 4-6

Let This Radicalize You workbook:

  • Pp. 32-47

Our History Has Always Been Contraband:

  • “The History They Don’t Want You to Know” (pp.26-82)

November: Care, Hope, and Grief

Let This Radicalize You: 

  • Chapters 7-9

Let This Radicalize You workbook:

  • Pp. 48-63

Our History Has Always Been Contraband:

  • “The History They Don’t Want You to Know” (pp. 83-152)

December: How We Fight Back

Let This Radicalize You: 

  • Chapter 10

  • Conclusions by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba

  • Afterword by Harsha Walia

Let This Radicalize You workbook:

  • Pp. 64-99

Our History Has Always Been Contraband:

  • Brea Baker, “When Black Studies is Contraband, We Must Be Outlaws”

  • Marlon Williams-Clark, “History is a Beautiful, Ugly Story, and We Must Teach It”

  • Roderick Ferguson, “In the Spirit of the Midnight School”