17 best-selling race books like As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoé Samudzi

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Similar categories in David Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm) book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• sociology

"...státní aparát [...] skupina lidí, kteří si jako jediní osobují právo - alespoň tehdy, když jsou ve své oficiální roli - používat násilí."

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdra…"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking ab…"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we …"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

Similar categories in Mumia Abu-Jamal's Live from Death Row book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• african american

Similar categories in Ernesto Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• theory
• politics
• history
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Jean-Paul Sartre's The Wretched of the Earth book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• sociology

"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

Similar categories in None's As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism

Similar categories in Karl Marx's Das Kapital book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• theory
• politics
• history
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Assata: An Autobiography book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• politics
• race
• history
• nonfiction

Similar categories in George L. Jackson's Blood in My Eye book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Huey P. Newton's Revolutionary Suicide book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

Similar categories in Pyotr Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete? book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

Similar categories in Martin Luther King Jr.'s Why We Can't Wait book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

Similar categories in Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

"Dread works best in complete silence."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"The world might be awful, but we don't have to like it that way."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

"You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you."

-N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

Similar categories in Da’Shaun Harrison's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice

"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"

-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Similar categories in Robyn Maynard's Rehearsals for Living book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice

Similar categories in Mohammed El-Kurd's Rifqa book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• politics
• social justice
• history
• nonfiction

"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

Similar categories in Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism
• sociology

"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)

Similar categories in Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• activism

"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Similar categories in Dean Spade's Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism
• sociology

"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Similar categories in Mariame Kaba's We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism
• anti racist

"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"

-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Similar categories in Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• anti racist
• sociology

"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism
• sociology

Similar categories in Jackie Wang's Carceral Capitalism book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice

"In other words, their [police] survival and expansion becomes bound up with their capacity to use the police power and the court system to loot residents."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"The conversion of poverty into a personal moral failure was intimately tied to the construction of black Americans as disposable and subject to mass incarceration."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"As Iyko Day notes, Native dispossession occurs through the expropriation of land, while black dispossession is characterized by enslavement and bodily dispossession."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

"The financialization of municipalities, the loss of key tax revenue streams, deindustrialization, and capital flight are the causes of the fiscal crisis—not reckless public spending."

-Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

Similar categories in Ruby Hamad's White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• anti racist
• sociology

"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

Similar categories in William C. Anderson's The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice

Similar categories in Marquis Bey's Anarcho-Blackness book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

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• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism
• sociology

Similar categories in Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism
• african american
• anti racist
• sociology

"We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for."

-Zoé Samudzi, As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

"What is citizen within a social contract where our Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial can be suspended in the event of our completely legal (but extrajudicial) murder by police?"

-Zoé Samudzi, As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

Similar categories in Frank B. Wilderson III's Afropessimism book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• race
• history
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• african american
• sociology

"As a boy I seldom lived in the present. It hurt too much to be in the present. When I occurred to myself I was myself in the future."

-Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism

Similar categories in Cindy Barukh Milstein's There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists book and Zoé Samudzi's As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation

• history
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism