- Ohio and New York
1970s/1980s/1990s
A few more titles from Umi's Library.
Notes: Umi was a curious and engaged reader with a radical library. Like the titles displayed in Amatullah (the May exhibition), these works represent a slim selection of the eclectic range of titles Umi purchased during her life. As a member of Pan-African and Black Power movements, Umi was interested in radical ideas and possibilities that would fundamentally upend the white supremacist and capitalist systems that fuel worldwide subjugation, ya dig? Accordingly, these titles reflect a wide-ranging engagement, from the anti-racist historiographies of the prolific J.A. Rogers and a study on women and decolonial struggle in Guinea-Bissau to a pamphlet on interest by the Murabitun movement; the celebrated feminist text, Our Bodies Our Selves; and Angela Davis' Women, Race and Class. As important as the topics of these works are, so is where Umi would have bought them. These works were published by independent movement printers and publishers like the New England Free Press, alongside Black printers and publishers. The works were sold at Black bookstores, such as Akiba Mkuu bookstore of Uhuru Sasa Shule School (established by The East) and Freedom Bookstore on Nostrand Ave in Brooklyn, where one could also pick up the newspapers of The Black Panther Party and The Young Lords.