Hello! Welcome to Rootedness, a podiobook where we read revolutionary texts. This episode we read "Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle" by Amilcar Cabral (1972).

I read from the anthology "I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosphy" Revised Edition. You can find the PDF here: https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/file%20uploads%20/amilcar_cabral_return_to_the_source_selected_spbook4me.org_copy.pdf

Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle | Rootedness Episode 01

Hello! Welcome to Rootedness, a podiobook where we read revolutionary texts. This episode we read "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" by Audre Lorde published in 1984.

You can find the PDF here: https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Lorde_The_Masters_Tools.pdf

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House | Rootedness Episode 02

Hello! Welcome to Rootedness, a podiobook where we read revolutionary texts. This episode we read "In Defense of Self Defense" by Huey P. Newton (June 20, 1967).

This speech is from the larger book "To Die for the People" and you can find the PDF here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Oz7BIztzpZdCpdSYKBb8waZXK7-gMCK/view

In Defense of Self Defense (1) | Rootedness Episode 03

Hello! Welcome to Rootedness, a podiobook where we read revolutionary texts. This episode we read "Abolitionist Alternatives" by Angela Y. Davis (2003).

This speech is from the larger book "Are Prisons Obsolete?" and you can find the PDF here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pejy0J3e7R2B5bEe4A2bXMqLt8JGD-gl/view

Abolitionist Alternatives | Rootedness Episode 04

Hello! Welcome to Rootedness, a podiobook where we read revolutionary texts. This episode we read an excerpt from "Discourse on Colonialism" by Aime Cesaire(1950).

I read from the anthology "I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosphy" Revised Edition pages 196-199. You can find the PDF here (I read pages 31-37 of the PDF): https://libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf

Discourse on Colonialism | Rootedness Episode 05

Hello! Welcome to Rootedness, a podiobook where we read revolutionary texts. This episode we read an excerpt from "Revolutions: It's Not Neat or Pretty or Quick" by Pat Parker (1980).

Some definitions for this ep:
- machinations: a scheming or crafty action or artful design intended to accomplish some usually evil end

defintion from: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machination

- dyke-baiting: a clear and frequent expression of male hostility when men's power and privileges are threatened by women's transgressions of traditional gender roles.

Definition from: Frank, Miriam. "Hard Hats & Homophobia: Lesbians in the Building Trades." New Labor Forum, no. 8 (2001): 25-36. Accessed June 19, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/40342289.

I read from the anthology "This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color" and you can find the PDF here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LVeNCGFL4keAL2bU-GmNo3AjKFHTue7f/view

Revolution: It's Not Neat or Pretty or Quick | Rootedness Episode 06

Hello! Welcome to Rootedness, a podiobook where we read revolutionary texts. This episode we read an excerpt from "Black Power, A Basic Understanding" by Walter Rodney (1969).

I read from the anthology "I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosphy" Revised Edition pages 217-223

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Black Power, A Basic Understanding | Rootedness Episode 07

Named after Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation by Toni Morrison, ROOTEDNESS is a space to have important political texts by Black and non-black POC writers read to you. This aims to help those who are beginning to pick up revolutionary texts but may be a bit daunted by the length and language, those who want + need an audio version of the selected texts, those who love podcasts but can't really listen to anything that isn't about Black liberation right now, and anyone else working towards a better future (read: defunding police, abolishing prisons, etc.) The answers are in the text! All readings that have online PDFs will be linked in the description.

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