i think the lens that freedom dreams takes on social movements is ultimately what's going to stick with me: the conviction that it is vital to trace the history of movement leaders' ideas and to sit with the worlds that they envisioned in all their promise and imperfection. such a vital, insightful, approachable intellectual and ideological history of many Black freedom movements over the centuries, and one that takes many levels of social analysis and vision seriously. the reparations and surrealism chapters were especially new and reframing for me.