6 must-read feminism books like Listening to Images by Tina M. Campt

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Listening to Images

By: Tina M. Campt

4.35

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging w…

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1. 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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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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2. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
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3. Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

By: Danez Smith

3.97

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith--"Hallelujah is an understatement" (Patrici… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
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4. Upstream: Selected Essays

By: Mary Oliver

2.43

Format: None pages,

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man

By: Susannah Heschel , Abraham Joshua Heschel , Ilya Schor

4.16

Format: 354 pages,

Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabba… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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6. Everything Is Illuminated

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

3.43

Format: 375 pages,

A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching fo… read more

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7. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

8. My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

By: Mary Frances Berry

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

"My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fel… read more

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9. Willful Subjects

By: Sara Ahmed

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Willful SubjectsSara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. O… read more

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10. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

Similar categories in Susan Sontag's On Photography book and Tina M. Campt's Listening to Images

  • art
  • history
  • theory
  • photography
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

11. Regarding the Pain of Others

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more

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12. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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13. Blood and Guts in High School

By: Kathy Acker , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more

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14. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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15. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Saidiya Hartman

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath… read more

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16. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

By: Thavolia Glymph

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more

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17. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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18. Making Comics

By: Lynda Barry

4.47

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 MacArthur Fellow will teach you how to draw a… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"How old do you have to be to make a bad drawing?"

-Lynda Barry, Making Comics

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19. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

By: Legacy Russell

3.81

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Simone de Beauvoir said “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The glitch announces: One i… read more

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  • art
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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20. Ghost Image

By: Hervé Guibert

4.14

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Besides writing fiction and personal essays, Hervé Guibert devoted his tragically brief life to the… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
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21. Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deep… read more

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"Anything I am you have use for is yours."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Even annoyance was part of the pleasure we took in each other, we were that early in love."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"Finally he laid his head on my chest. Don’t be like that, he said again as I put my arms around him. Do you see? You don’t have to be like that, he said. You can be like this."

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

"I wanted to root into him, even as the wind said all rootedness was a sham, there were only passing arrangements, makeshift shelters and poor harbors, I love you, I thought suddenly in that rush that…"

-Garth Greenwell, Cleanness

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22. Indelicacy

By: Amina Cain

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a … read more

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  • art
  • feminism
"I hated March more than any other month, with its promises of warmth that never came"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"I would listen to a bird cry, or the cat and the dog scratching around. In those moments I felt like a giant ear."

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"In books I found even more strongly my desire to write, to write back to them and their jagged, perfect words. I found life that ran close to my own"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

"Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always.…"

-Amina Cain, Indelicacy

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23. Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

By: Ali Smith

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred yea… read more

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"We move from one invisibility to another."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

"Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without."

-Ali Smith, Spring (Seasonal Quartet, #3)

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24. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes book and Tina M. Campt's Listening to Images

  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
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25. Death by Landscape

By: Elvia Wilk

4.19

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

From the author of Oval, a collection of “fan nonfiction” that proposes new possibilities and genea… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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26. Listening to Images

By: Tina M. Campt

4.35

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging w… read more

Similar categories in Tina M. Campt's Listening to Images book and Tina M. Campt's Listening to Images

  • art
  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • feminism
  • photography
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • grad school
  • nonfiction
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27. Little Rot

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning Akwaeke Emezi, about five friends trying … read more

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28. Black Meme: A History of The Images That Make Us

By: Legacy Russell

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A history of Black imagery that rewrites the history of visual culture and technology now Represen… read more

Similar categories in Legacy Russell's Black Meme: A History of The Images That Make Us book and Tina M. Campt's Listening to Images

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study) by Kevin Quashie

29. Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)

By: Kevin Quashie

4.56

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encoun… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Quashie's Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study) book and Tina M. Campt's Listening to Images

  • nonfiction
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30. Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual

By: Kimberly Juanita Brown

4.50

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

A powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to glo… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Juanita Brown's Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual book and Tina M. Campt's Listening to Images

  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown

31. Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds

By: Jayna Brown

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative state… read more

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  • philosophy
  • race
  • nonfiction

6 Top history books like Listening to Images by Tina M. Campt

Transform Your Habits

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

3.39

Transform Your Habits

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

3.91

Transform Your Habits

On Photography

Susan Sontag

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

4.55

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13 Top nonfiction books like Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study) by Kevin Quashie

Transform Your Habits

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Ross Gay

4.25

Transform Your Habits

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Olio

Tyehimba Jess

3.66

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