9 must-read race books like Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory by Patricia Hill Collins

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Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

By: Patricia Hill Collins

4.39

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical too…

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1. The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

By: Karen Kelsky

4.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get ten… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • academic
"... the modern university system systematically requires an unending supply of young, vulnerable idealists to work for poverty wages as graduate student teaching assistants (and, of course, adjuncts)…"

-Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

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2. The Cultural Politics of Emotion

By: Sara Ahmed

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In The Cultural Politics of the Emotions, Sara Ahmed develops a new methodology for reading "the em… read more

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  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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3. 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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  • race
  • theory
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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4. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull

4.33

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more

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  • race
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

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5. Ayiti

By: Roxane Gay

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

The debut collection from the vibrant voice of Roxane Gay is a unique blend of fiction, nonfiction,… read more

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  • feminism
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6. A Disability History of the United States

By: Kim E. Nielsen

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability… read more

Similar categories in Kim E. Nielsen's A Disability History of the United States book and Patricia Hill Collins's Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

By: Cordelia Fine

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

It's the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with do… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

8. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

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9. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

By: bell hooks

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teachingto Transgress: Education as the Practice … read more

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10. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

By: Naomi Klein

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more

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11. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more

Similar categories in Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) book and Patricia Hill Collins's Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

12. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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13. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

14. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

By: Dorothy Roberts

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activ… read more

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15. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • race
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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16. How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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17. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

By: Bettina L. Love

4.54

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • academic
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

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18. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jiménez

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more

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"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."

-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

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19. Un féminisme décolonial

By: Françoise Vergès

4.35

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Pourquoi le terme « féministe » est-il librement approprié à la fois par l’extrême droite, la gauch… read more

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  • race
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
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20. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

By: Patricia Hill Collins

4.39

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical too… read more

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  • race
  • theory
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • gender studies
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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21. On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

By: Walter D. Mignolo

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colon… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology

10 must-read politics books like Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory by Patricia Hill Collins

Transform Your Habits

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

Sara Ahmed

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

A Disability History of the United States

Kim E. Nielsen

4.40

Transform Your Habits

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

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6 must-read history books like On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis by Walter D. Mignolo

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2.89

Transform Your Habits

A Disability History of the United States

Kim E. Nielsen

4.40

Transform Your Habits

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

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