I love the podcast, How I Built This, and so when I heard that they were releasing a book, I knew I wanted to read it. How I Built This, by Guy Raz, is about the various through-lines that connect the different entrepreneurs he’s interviewed on his podcast over the years. How I Built This …
Month: January 2021
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore is the last book that I read in 2020, and it was wonderful. I had heard a lot about this book for a while and I’m glad that I finally had the chance to read it. The Radium Girls covers the stories of the young women who worked as …
In You are an Artist, Sarah Urist Green writes about different artists, and gives an art assignment based on each of them. I’m a longtime Vlogbrothers fan (I started watching their videos in 2007, which was roughly half my lifetime ago. In other news, I am elderly.) and Sarah Urist Green is married to John …
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi focuses on defining racism and naming a variety of the different ways racism shows up in our society. “Human-made environmental catastrophes disproportionately harming bodies of color are not unusual; for instance, nearly four thousand U.S. areas—mostly poor and non-White—have higher lead poisoning rates than Flint, Michigan.” …
White Rage by Carol Anderson is an examination of racism in America through the perspective of the racist policies that were enacted by white Americans to keep Black Americans oppressed. So often when white people talk about racism, they will say racism=bad, and even oppose specific racist policies, without acknowledging who has been enacting and …