8 best-selling race books like The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century by Gerald Horne

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The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

By: Gerald Horne

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arriva…

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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3. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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4. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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5. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more

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  • american history
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6. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more

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7. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By: Nancy Isenberg

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more

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  • american history
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8. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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9. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By: C.L.R. James

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more

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10. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

11. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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12. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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13. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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14. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

By: Friedrich Engels

4.24

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more

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"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

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15. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

By: Adam Hochschild

4.18

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more

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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"

-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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16. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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17. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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18. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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19. The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

By: Gerald Horne

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arriva… read more

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20. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.91

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more

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21. Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

By: Walter Rodney

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of … read more

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7 Top audiobook books like The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century by Gerald Horne

Transform Your Habits

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

4.61

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

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The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier

4.02

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