Critique of Black Reason (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
By: Achille Mbembe
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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1. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
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- africa
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- sociology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
3. 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
4. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
By: Pierre Bourdieu , Richard Nice
4.15
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois … read more
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- theory
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- sociology
"Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others."-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
"Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to the various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literatu…"-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
"Music is the 'pure' art par excellence. It says nothing and has nothing to say. Never really having an expressive function, it is opposed to drama, which even in its most refined forms still bears a …"-Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
5. The Creation of Patriarchy
By: Gerda Lerner
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchyi… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
6. Fear and Trembling
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
7. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
8. Woodcutters
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more
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9. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. Democracy and Education
By: John Dewey
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
In this book, written in 1916, Dewey tries to criticize and expand on the educational philosophies … read more
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11. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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12. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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13. 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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14. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
By: Paul B. Preciado , Bruce Benderson
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erec… read more
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15. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
By: Richard Delgado , Jean Stefancic
4.62
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For well over a decade, critical race theory--the school of thought that holds that race lies at th… read more
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16. Ik kom hier nog op terug
By: Rob van Essen
3.78
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more
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"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug
17. Kapitalismin suuri illuusio
By: Riina Tanskanen
4.30
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Kapitalismi on täynnä virheitä. Riina Tanskanen ja Samu Kuoppa esittelevät yhdeksän keskeistä valhe… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Discours sur le colonialisme (suivi de Discours sur la Négritude)
By: Aimé Césaire
4.36
Format: 92 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Comme naguère Jean-Jacques Rousseau dénonçait le scandale d'une société fondée sur l'inégalité, ave… read more
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- history
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- sociology
19. Critique of Black Reason (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
By: Achille Mbembe
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the categ… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- post colonial
- african literature
- sociology
20. Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump
By: Asad Haider
3.92
Format: 144 pages, None
The phenomenon of "identity politics" represents one of the primary impasses of the contemporary le… read more
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21. Fortschritt und Regression
By: Rahel Jaeggi
3.40
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Fortschritt ist sozialer Wandel hin zu einer Situation, in der die Verhältnisse nicht nur anders, s… read more
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