Jak Peake
@jakpeake.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Literature, Film and Theatre Studies and trade unionist - currently on UCU's Higher Education Committee. Interests: Caribbean and U.S. literature, 90s alternative/indie rock/grunge/alt dance, old films, books. campaignforucudemocracy.com
This new book Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World, by Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas B Breyfogle and Steven Conn offers US students (& readers generally) a visual way of learning about Black history in the United States. Looks like a much needed book.
December 25, 2024 at 10:51 PM
This new book Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories That Changed the World, by Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas B Breyfogle and Steven Conn offers US students (& readers generally) a visual way of learning about Black history in the United States. Looks like a much needed book.
Reading Jane McAlevey's No Shortcuts feels prescient. "Trump attained power by decrying the elite, and turning the working class... against one another...Yet we’ve found no better system... than democracy and no better mechanism for ensuring decent lives for its working-class citizens than unions".
December 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Reading Jane McAlevey's No Shortcuts feels prescient. "Trump attained power by decrying the elite, and turning the working class... against one another...Yet we’ve found no better system... than democracy and no better mechanism for ensuring decent lives for its working-class citizens than unions".
Enjoying reading Percival Everett's Erasure - only 23 years after its publication. Makes me appreciate what a great adaptation American Fiction is. Will have to read James, next, his retelling of Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from Jim's POV. #fiction #authors #ListenToBlackVoices
December 22, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Enjoying reading Percival Everett's Erasure - only 23 years after its publication. Makes me appreciate what a great adaptation American Fiction is. Will have to read James, next, his retelling of Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from Jim's POV. #fiction #authors #ListenToBlackVoices