Shifting Identity
Adapted from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing explores a Harlem Renaissance-era relationship between two reunited childhood friends, one of whom now passes as white while the other lives as a Black woman. The black-and-white film, which debuted at Sundance, moved to Netflix on Nov. 10. Picture Films.
Prehistory, Reimagined
Published after anthropologist and anarchist activist David Graeber’s death, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity overturns our understanding of our ancestral past. Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow link our ideas of hunter-gatherers and early cities to anti-Indigenous 18th century narratives. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Dismantling Prisons
In Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons, Cradle Community, an activist collective dedicated to transformative justice and prison abolition, challenges common concepts of criminality and punishment and recognizes the harmful consequences of these ideas within and beyond the prison industrial complex. Hajar Press.
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