Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
by Eduardo Galeano
Recommended by John Leguizamo
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Art History, Politics, and History.
Since its U.S. debut a quartercentury ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Art History, Politics, and History.
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John Leguizamo
“3 books every Latinx should read! Open Veins Of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano, 1491 by Charles Mann, Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States”
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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