5 must-read activism books like What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism by Arun Kundnani

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What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism

By: Arun Kundnani

4.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a…

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1. 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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  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • social justice
"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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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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"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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3. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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4. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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6. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

By: Stuart Jeffries

3.62

Format: None pages, ebook

"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the F… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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8. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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9. NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

By: Steve Silberman

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking… read more

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10. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

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11. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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12. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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13. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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14. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • social justice
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  • nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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15. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

16. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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17. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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18. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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"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)

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20. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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21. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • economics
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22. The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics

By: The Kao

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Hyperpolitik

By: Anton Jäger

3.88

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Die Ära der Postpolitik ist vorbeiDass die Politik wieder da ist, dass Debatten um Corona oder »Wok… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

4.19

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more

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

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25. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. 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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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
"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

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27. Just Us: An American Conversation

By: Claudia Rankine

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into itAs everyday whit… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
"To converse is to risk the unraveling of the said and the unsaid."

-Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation

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28. Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Salvage Editions)

By: Kevin Ochieng Okoth

4.15

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Salvaging a decolonised futureRed Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

By: Alberto Toscano

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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30. What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism

By: Arun Kundnani

4.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This scintillating intellectual and political history provides a new understanding of racism, and a… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
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31. The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands

By: Alex Niven

3.64

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, cultur… read more

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22 Best history books like What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism by Arun Kundnani

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4.30

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4.32

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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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