Black Lives Matter student reading list
At Vienna International School, we put together a short list of great books by Black authors in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and sent this list to students for suggested summer reading. Visit the link here. Please let me know of your favorites!
Ralph Ellison, the author of Invisible Man, speaks of writing and reading as a form of protest in an interview with The Paris Review:
Now, mind, I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest. Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground is, among other things, a protest against the limitations of nineteenth-century rationalism; Don Quixote, Man’s Fate, Oedipus Rex, The Trial—all these embody protest, even against the limitation of human life itself.