Afropessimism
By: Frank B. Wilderson III
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Bla…
Want to Read $ 9.99"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
"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
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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
2. 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
3. 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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4. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more
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5. Assata: An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds
4.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more
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6. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
By: Patricia Hill Collins
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have deve… read more
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7. Blood in My Eye
By: George L. Jackson
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August… read more
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8. 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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9. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
By: Orlando Patterson
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the first full-scale comparative study of the nature of slavery. In a work of prodigious sc… read more
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10. The Last Samurai
By: Helen DeWitt
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more
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11. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
12. 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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13. 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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14. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
By: J. Jack Halberstam , Fred Moten , Stefano Harney
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black… read more
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15. American Son
By: None
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Fili… read more
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16. 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
17. Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)
By: Achille Mbembe
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes… read more
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18. Carceral Capitalism
By: Jackie Wang
4.61
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, pre… read more
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"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
19. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
By: Elisa Gabbert
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more
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20. Afropessimism
By: Frank B. Wilderson III
4.23
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Bla… read more
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- african american
- education
- 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
21. Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
By: Calvin L. Warren
3.81
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and … read more
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