17 Best politics books like The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power by Jared A. Ball

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The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power

By: Jared A. Ball

4.51

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact t…

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Cover of The Society of the Spectacle by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Guy Debord

1. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • race
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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3. 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
"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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4. Hollywood Babylon

By: Kenneth Anger

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hollywood Babylonwas originally published in Paris, and quickly became an underground legend. Not a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Assata: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis, Assata Shakur, Lennox S. Hinds

5. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
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6. 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
  • race
  • nonfiction
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7. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

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8. Black Bourgeoisie

By: E. Franklin Frazier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its b… read more

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  • economics
  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction

9. On Contradiction

By: Mao Zedong

3.70

Format: 336 pages, paperback

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction

10. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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11. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

12. Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton

By: Don Yaeger , Walter Payton

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all … read more

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13. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

14. 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
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton

15. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

By: Orisanmi Burton

4.81

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitioni… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu

16. Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

By: Catherine Liu

3.81

Format: 90 pages, ebook

Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and vir… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"In the United States, generations of allegedly neutral experts have hollowed out public goods, degraded the public sphere, facilitated the monetization of everything from health to aptitude, and inde…"

-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

"The novel predicted the triumphs of the post-1968 PMC: the moral rectitude of the virtuous lawyer and his high-spirited daughter renders the solution to racism attractive to the establishment—work on…"

-Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

Cover of Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3) by Tomi Adeyemi

17. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

By: Tomi Adeyemi

3.49

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more

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"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

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18. The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power

By: Jared A. Ball

4.51

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact t… read more

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  • race
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
Cover of Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States by Charisse Burden-Stelly

19. Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

By: Charisse Burden-Stelly

4.46

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity) by Michael R. Fischbach

20. Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity)

By: Michael R. Fischbach

4.42

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The 1967 Arab–Israeli War rocketed the question of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of Ame… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Still Black, Still Strong by Dhoruba Bin Wahad

21. Still Black, Still Strong

By: Dhoruba Bin Wahad

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activi… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction

18 must-read nonfiction books like The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power by Jared A. Ball

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Hollywood Babylon

Kenneth Anger

5.00

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16 best-selling history books like Assata: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis, Assata Shakur, Lennox S. Hinds

Transform Your Habits

An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

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