Running While Black is the most recent e-book on this listing—I simply picked it up from my native bookstore after pre-ordering it earlier this yr. (Highly advocate doing this when you may. It’s like giving shock presents to your self.) I’m midway by and it’s an engrossing learn on a number of ranges: it’s a memoir, a historical past, and a name to motion.
The e-book grapples with a query—why is distance operating so white?—that many people have most likely requested in passing, however Désir digs in. She finds historic ironies, like that the operating increase caught on throughout the identical period as authorized fights over integration. “We couldn’t use a state park whereas white individuals had been beginning to jog in them,” she writes. In actuality, Black athletes had been operating all alongside, however the picture of a runner as a thin white dude is one thing that was constructed over time and must be challenged.
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