Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico
By: Rocio Zambrana
3.67
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
With the largest municipal debt in US history and a major hurricane that destroyed much of the arch…
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1. 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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"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
2. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space (Ideas)
By: Neil Smith
3.94
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Urban, regional and international development are usually seen as three very different sets of proc… read more
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3. 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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4. Puerto Rico in the American Century: a History Since 1898
By: César J. Ayala , Rafael Bernabé
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of … read more
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5. The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
By: Marcus Rediker
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imag… read more
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6. 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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"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
7. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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8. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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9. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
By: Grant Snider
3.74
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more
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"A book closed is just a block of paper."-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
10. Pet (Pet, #1)
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.16
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking and haunting novel about a creature that escapes from an artist's canvas, whose… read more
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"Monsters don't look like anything, That's the whole point. That's the whole problem."-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)
"It's hard to build a new world without making people angry. You try your best, you move with compassion, you think about the big structures. No revolution is perfect."-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)
" What does a monster look like? Jam asked. Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. "Monsters don't look like anything, doux-doux. That's the whole point. That's the whole probl…"-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)
"Bitter knew her name was heavy but she hadn't minded because it was honest. That was something she'd taught Jam - that a lot of things were manageable as long as they were honest. You could see thing…"-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)
11. Are You Listening?
By: Tillie Walden
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey th… read more
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"Everyone everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it."-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
"Mom. It's too hot out. Can't we skip today? We could walk twice tomorrow...' 'We have to, Lou. We have to move every day, even when we don't want to."-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
"When something horrible happens, or something amazing...really, anything that's big, it makes you feel like mountains could shatter, or the sky could disappear...you know what I'm talking about? Well…"-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
12. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
By: Yoru Sumino
4.36
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
A Bittersweet Romance In this deeply moving first-person story, an introverted high school boy f… read more
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"You don't want to say my name, because you might attach a meaning to it. You're afraid to define someone you're going to lose as a 'friend' or 'girlfriend'."-Yoru Sumino, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
"认可某人。喜欢某人，讨厌某人。跟谁在一起很开心，跟谁在一起很郁闷；跟谁牵手，跟谁拥抱；跟谁擦身而过。那就是活着。只有一个人的话，就不知道自己是否存在。喜欢某人、讨厌某人的我，跟谁在一起很开心、跟谁在一起很郁闷的我。我觉得我和这些人的关系，就是我活着的意义，而不是别人的。我的心是因为大家在才存在，我的身体是因为大家触碰才存在。这样构成的我，现在活着。还在这里活着。所以人活着是有意义的。就跟你和我都…"-Yoru Sumino, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
13. Bubble
By: Jordan Morris
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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14. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
By: Sara Ahmed
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more
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15. Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico
By: Rocio Zambrana
3.67
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
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