Tara Betts's Critical Reads
Tara Betts is a local author and professor. She's been a part of a number of events at the Co-op and 57th Street, and will next join us on Thu. 2/23 6pm at 57th Street for a discussion with Kristiana Rae Colón.
Related Titles
Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of
third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent
role.
This classic work, first
published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of
scholars...
"I want to suggest this: that the majority for which everyone is seeking which must reassess and release us from our past and deal with the present and create standards worthy of what a man may be---this majority is you. No one else can do it. The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
From In Search of a Majority, chosen by bookseller Annie
"If we do not dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!"
"You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free"
"It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is a commonplace. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal power: that one must never, in one's own life, accept these injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength."
From "The Fire Next Time" and "Notes on a Native Son", recommended by bookseller Leslie