The Intimacies of Four Continents
By: Lisa Lowe
4.34
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Afric…
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1. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
By: Grace Lee Boggs , Scott Kurashige , Danny Glover
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is u… read more
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"Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after"-Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
"The physical threat posed by climate change represents a crisis that is not only material but also profoundly spiritual at its core because it challenges us to think seriously about the future of the…"-Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
"Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images…"-Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
"Still, it becomes clearer every day that organizing or joining massive protests and demanding new policies fail to sufficiently address the crisis we face. They may demonstrate that we are on the rig…"-Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
2. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
By: Paul Gilroy
4.03
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural national… read more
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3. Waiting for the Barbarians
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny fr… read more
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"Nothing is worse than what we can imagine"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"I am now no more than a pile of blood, bone and meat that is unhappy."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
4. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
5. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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6. Black Boy
By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more
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7. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
By: Cedric J. Robinson
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to under… read more
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8. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
By: Mark Atwood Lawrence
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels … read more
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9. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
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10. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
By: David Montgomery
2.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The results of American industrial worker mobilization after the abolition of slavery are traced in… read more
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11. Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things
By: Ann Laura Stoler
4.22
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Michel Foucault's History of Sexualityhas been one of the most influential books of the last two de… read more
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12. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
By: Alan Brinkley
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its … read more
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13. After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
By: John Darwin
3.88
Format: 383 pages,
A Rise and Fall of the Great Powers for the post-Cold War era--a brilliantly written, sweeping new … read more
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14. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
By: Mahmood Mamdani
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and an… read more
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15. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
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16. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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17. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
18. The Intimacies of Four Continents
By: Lisa Lowe
4.34
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
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19. Whoever You Are, Honey
By: Olivia Gatwood
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more
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20. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
By: Tiffany Lethabo King
4.54
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neit… read more
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21. Black Trans Feminism
By: Marquis Bey
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in w… read more
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