Featuring two Curated Collections as we get closer to the First Annual Strategy & Soul Holiday Party
2024 Holiday Curated Collection
Young Organizers in Training Collection I
Each book in a collection has been selected to teach lessons on Afro-Centric History that we can use in our organizing today. For the Young Organizers in Training, we want to make sure to begin teaching liberatory ideas from an early age. Check out some of the central concepts associated with each of these books for children.
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance by Eleanor E. Tate (Black Consciousness, Black Arts Movement, Harlem Renaissance)
We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (Climate Justice, Indigenous liberation)
The Watson’s go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (History of Jim Crow Segregation, Black migration, Black Young Consciousness building)
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Class Consciousness, Black Radical Imagination)
Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson Story by Susan Robeson (Anti-War, Black Organizing, Anti-Imperialism)
2024 Holiday Curated Collection
Black & Revolutionary Feminism
Black and Revolutionary Feminism features some of the top thinking on 3rd world Feminism, the struggle to connect Feminism to Black women, Anti-Imperialism, the contribution of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous women to socialism, the Civil Rights Movement and Black liberation Movement.
Black Internationalist Feminism, Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 by Cheryl Higashida (Black Class Consciousness, Internationalism, Black Nationalism, Feminism)
Patriarchy and Accumulation on A World Scale by Maria Mies (Feminism, Colonization, Housewifization, Patriarchy)
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois by Gerald Horne (Black Revolutionary Biography, Revolutionary Pan Africanism, Socialism)
Warrior Poet: Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux (Black LGBTQ Rights, Black Revolutionary Feminism)
Beyond Containment—Reflections, Essays and Poems by Claudia Jones (Black Communism, Black West Indian History, Revolutionary Women Biographies)
Join the Labor/Community Strategy Center for the
First Annual Strategy and Soul Bookstore Holiday Party
Saturday December 21st, 2024 10am-5pm
Strategy & Soul Bookstore
3542 Martin Luther King Blvd. LA CA 90008
Join us as we collectively build the Bookstore Holiday Party into an annual Strategy Center tradition.
On December 21st we want to build with you using books as our centerpiece. That means you can either order books between now and December 21 or join us on December 21st in the bookstore for a day full of literary fun!
You can read more about how to get books below, but begin by marking your calendar to spend some time at the Strategy & Soul Bookstore with Akuna Uka, Barbara Lott-Holland, Channing Martinez, and Eric Mann.
The Concept and Our Implementation
So here is the idea;
Step 1: Order books from our curated list and you’ll have three options.
- Option 1: Order your books now and leave gift wrapping instructions and pick them up on December 21st at Strategy and Soul bookstore.
- Option 2: Buy the books on December 21st at the Bookstore; we can still gift wrap them, but it will help us if you email us to let us know which books you’ll be interested in.
- Option 3: for National Supporters Visit our website to order your books now: www.strategyandsoulbooks.com make sure to leave gift wrapping instructions and we’ll ship your books to you between now and December 21st.
Step 2: Join us in December 21st for first Bookstore Holiday party
Some of our books include: Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois, the Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Colbert, The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, and The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi, and Playbook for Progressives by Eric Mann.
We also have 8 curated book collections including two wonderful young organizers in training (for children) collections. All collections are discounted at 10%.
Bonus: On December 21st, you can mix and match your bundle of 5 books for the same 10% discount.
