5 Best philosophy books like Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics by David Lloyd

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Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics

By: David Lloyd

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order o…

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1. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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2. 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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  • 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

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3. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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4. 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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. 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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  • nonfiction

6. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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7. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

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"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

8. Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis

By: Katherine McKittrick

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Hardcover

The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that… read more

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9. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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10. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

By: Audre Lorde

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Beloved

By: Toni Morrison

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more

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15. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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16. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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17. The Intimacies of Four Continents

By: Lisa Lowe

4.34

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Afric… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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18. Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)

By: Jennifer C. Nash

4.21

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

In Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectio… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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19. Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics

By: David Lloyd

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

8 Top nonfiction books like Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics by David Lloyd

Transform Your Habits

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

Sara Ahmed

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman

4.28

Transform Your Habits

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

3.39

Transform Your Habits

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

3.63

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18 Top fiction books like Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Transform Your Habits

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

4.12

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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