24 Top nonfiction books like Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America by Eugene Puryear

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Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America

By: Eugene Puryear

4.55

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

Shackled and Chained, Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America is a thorough examination of mass in…

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1. Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire

By: Richard Becker

4.72

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine--from the division of the Middle East by Western pow… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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3. Live from Death Row

By: Mumia Abu-Jamal , John Edgar Wideman

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Here for the first time are the prison writings of Abu-Jamal--including the censored commentaries f… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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5. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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6. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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7. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics

By: Vladimir Lenin

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine

By: غسان كنفاني , Ghassan Kanafani

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Pamphlet

This study is a scientific analysis of the Palestinian struggle during the 1930's. It presents the … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

By: Robin D.G. Kelley

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction

12. Ten Days that Shook the World

By: John Reed

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

This first-person chronicle by John Reed, a legendary journalist who was present at the flash point… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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13. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

By: George Breitman , Malcolm X

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last tumultuous eight months of his life.… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

14. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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15. Why We Can't Wait

By: Martin Luther King Jr. , Jesse Jackson

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 "Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the s… read more

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16. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America

By: None

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

Spanning 500 years of Hispanic history, from the first New World colonies to the 19th century westw… read more

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17. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

By: Jean Genet , George L. Jackson , None

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brotheris an outspoken condemnation of the r… read more

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18. 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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19. Happy Hour

By: Marlowe Granados

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

With the verve and bite of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and the whip-smart, wisecracking sensibil… read more

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"Being unattached is exhausting."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"being a muse is not for the weak"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"Money was limited, but my taste was not."

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

"isn't a vacation when you forget what day it is?"

-Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

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20. Washington Bullets

By: Vijay Prashad

4.40

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl

By: Rebecca Quin

4.51

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. B… read more

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  • nonfiction
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will complete you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will destroy you"

-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl

"Then and there, I vowed to lose weight so I might have a chance of actually being like my mom when I grew up. But then I got hungry and sad and just wanted pizza. Beauty was my mom's domain. Pizza wa…"

-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl

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22. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

By: Domenico Losurdo

4.39

Format: 353 pages, ebook

La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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23. Red Star Over the Third World

By: Vijay Prashad

4.23

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

By: Party for Socialism and Liberation

4.55

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

A vision of the first decade of socialism in the United States. The diverse multinational working c… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education
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25. The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World

By: Walter Rodney

4.42

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. The Trinity of Fundamentals

By: Wisam Rafeedie

4.62

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s (PYM) Popular Unive… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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27. China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future

By: Kenneth J. Hammond

4.41

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Between the end of the Opium War in the 1842 and the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging

By: Jodi Dean

3.89

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

When people say “comrade,” they change the world In the twentieth century, millions of people ac… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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29. Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America

By: Eugene Puryear

4.55

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

Shackled and Chained, Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America is a thorough examination of mass in… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
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30. Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism

By: Tina Landis

4.64

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Millions around the world are demanding action and actively seeking solutions to the unfolding clim… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction

31. Amilcar Cabral, Essai de biographie politique

By: Mário Pinto de Andrade

4.33

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

French read more

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23 best-selling politics books like Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America by Eugene Puryear

Transform Your Habits

Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire

Richard Becker

4.72

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Live from Death Row

Mumia Abu-Jamal , John Edgar Wideman

4.24

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

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The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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