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Hi book lovers! Last night while Pumba snored away I started reading a bit of 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 and the author, Walter Rodney. I can already tell this book is going to be eye-opening and gripping. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Here is the Index for those of you who are interested! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 1️⃣Some Questions on Development 2️⃣How Africa Developed Before the Coming of the Europeans up to the 15th Century 3️⃣Africa’s Contribution to European 4️⃣Capitalist Development — the Pre-Colonial Period 5️⃣Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment — to 1885 6️⃣Africa’s Contribution to the Capitalist Development of Europe — the Colonial Period 6️⃣Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ QOTD: What is the genre you never read ? And the one you read the most of? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ATQ: I mostly read Fantasy and I absolutey never ever read horror books. I’ll have a heart attack. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . . . #bookstapaws #booksanddogs #librosyperros #booksandbeans #bookart #nonfictionbooks #booknookstagram #bookcollection #nonfictionreads #paperbacks #bookshop #decolonizethisplace #decolonizeyourbookshelf #decolonizeyourmind #lectura #diversebooks #instabooks #bookstore #diversifyyourbookshelf #bookslove #literatura #bookstack

NON-FICTION TBR 🖤 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I normally read for escapism but I also love a good non-fiction book. I have already read some of the books in this stack and would like to finish the rest in the following months. I am also trying to not buy more until I’ve read the ones I have (I’m making no promises though 😅 book shopping is a separate hobby 😂). I wish we had more hours in the day to read! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ QOTD: Have you read any of these? Is there one that especially catches your attention? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #igreads #bookstagramfeature #dogsandbooks #librosyperros #bookobsessed #bookstagrammer #bookslovers #history #bookstapaws #booklovers #booksph #thriller #bookshop #writersofinstagram #librosnoficcion #bibliomania #lectura #leeresvivir #instabooks #bookstore #czytamy #bookslove #bookstapets #bookstack #ksiazka #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #nonfictionbooks #bookaddiction #bookfeaturepage

Hi book nerds! Happy Valentine’s Day! 🤎💜🤎💜🤎 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I started reading Children of Blood and Bone last week and, although I absolutely hate doing it, I chose to DNF it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The book started out strong and I was enjoying the beginning but I guess it wasn’t meant to be. The two things I absolutley need in a book are to understand the magic system and to get emotionally attached to the characters, but it seems I am heartless because I wasn’t rooting for absolutley anyone. However, I don’t want to discourage people from reading Children of Blood and Bone because I know a lot of bookstagrammers absolutely loved the book and I think all the ingredients for it to be a great read are there, I simply didn’t connect with the story. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ QOTD: Do you mark a book as read on Goodreads when you DNF it? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #fantasybooks #librosfantasia #bookslover #libros #bookobsessed #bookstagrammer #bookslovers #history #currentlyreading #booklovers #booksph #thriller #bookshop #writersofinstagram #lecture #diversifybookstagram #lectura #espa #instabooks #bookstore #pocreads #bookslove #literatura #bookstack #childrenofbloodandbone #antiquarian #losartefactosinfernales #autumn #bookaddiction #bookstapaws

Hi guys! Meet Charlie! My new dog! Jk! She’s actually my colleagues’. If you’ve been following me for a while you have probably seen her in my stories. She and Pumba grew up together 🤎 but, unfortunately, I don’t have any photos of them together. Anyways, yesterday I thought “Charlie deserves a spot in Instagram because she’s the cutest” but she moves a lot more than my slow dinosaur so it was hard getting a good photo of her. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I started reading 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐞 a few days ago with @ibringwords and I am really enjoying it so far. I’m only about 100 pages in but it started out strong. Have you read it? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ QOTD: How is your 2020 reading going so far? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . . . . #librosdeficcion #diversifybookstagram #booksofinsta #booksandbeans #bookart #pocreads #booknookstagram #dogbook #bookoftheday #paperbacks #bookshop #writersofinstagram #dogbookclub #bibliomania #lectura #espa #instabooks #bookstore #childrenofbloodandbone #bookslove #literatura #bookstack #fantasybooks #fantasybookseries #librosfantasia #librosdefantasia

My mom migrated to Spain in 1986, not too long after the end of Franco’s dictatorship. After my sister and I were born, my biological father (who is also Mexican) left us. I learned I was Mexican when I was 8 and my classmates started calling me Pocahontas. I learned it wasn’t a compliment when I turned 10 and my classmates would ask me if my mom wanted to come home to clean their toilets. 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥. We moved to California when I was 12 and for the first time in my life I had friends. Of course there was still racism and academic bias but I didn’t feel alone. I moved back to Spain when I finished high school and a few years later I attended University of Salamanca to study Translation. I had two jobs while studying and also got a certificate to Teach English as a Second Language at the same time. I sometimes lived off of rice and bread but it was the best four years of my life. Our class was a safe haven. LGBTQI classmates found their voice and minorities felt included. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞. 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝, 𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧. I am privileged because I have light skin and can pass for Southern European if I change my accent, and I will never be the target of Islamophobia because unless I tell you I am Muslim, you will never know. Some of my problems now (like dog or travel related ones) are privileged problems. So when my Afro latinx or LGBTQI friends talk to me about themselves and what they need I don’t question them, I listen. When my Asian American friends tell me they feel excluded from the conversation, I listen. 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤. We are all a product of society and so, unfortunately, we are not automatically antiracist. If you aren’t supporting everyone in their fight to have equal rights and opportunities, then you aren’t doing it right.

We are not American Dirt, we are not voiceless, and we are most definitely not a faceless mass. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ American Dirt perpetuates stereotypes, silences migrant voices, and hurts the latinx/Mexican/Chicanx community. We are not trying to censor your reading choices but rather asking that you listen to what #ownvoices has to say about it. This book may be many things, but a representation of the struggles of migrants it is not, and praising it as such makes you part of the problem. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Be better. Do better. Pick better books. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Swipe right for a list of Mexican/Mexican American own voices and novels that don’t dehumanize migrants. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #readwithus #americandirt #jeaninecummins #alwaysreading #bookphoto #booksofinsta #bookart #booksbooksbooks #bookcollection #iamnotamericandirt #bookstagrammer #blogger

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