Non-Fiction

its POV is not one that many people - especially white people - can easily grasp. I'm familiar with the language and goals from my Peace Studies days, working with Black community groups and churches on various social justice projects: housing discrimination, antiracism, etc. It's the way we oriented towards the work that had to be done. I read this book for the antiracism committee at work, and no one else could really wrap their heads around it. (The group was 100% white.) I also enjoyed Brown's book after this one, called We Will Not Cancel Us. Same themes, but seemed to be presented more simply than Emergent Strategies.

The blurb says Brown was inspired to write this from Octavia Butler's book, Parable of the Sower (fiction). She was also inspired by Margaret Wheatley's book, Leadership and the New Science (nonfiction). I've also read these two books, and think they complement Emergent Strategy exceptionally well. (Or is it that Emergent Strategy compliments those books?)

I just finished reading Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell. Good food for thought, though it was more a book about cults and the people who follow them. The "language" part of the subtitle refers to the jargon developed and used by "cultish" groups, such as CrossFit, Jonestown, QAnon, and SoulCycle.