Plantation Memories

What an incredible, powerful, radical book. In this work, Grada Kilomba, an artist, poet, scholar and cultural critic, brings together all of the elements of her persona into the writing. In framing writing as an act of becoming, she names her force in this book: she names what has remained unnamed, tells untold stories, reinforces in radical fashion what racism looks like and what it does to the individuals exposed to it. She calls out Academia for reproducing the colonial order in de... leia mais