5 Best race books like A History of Pan-African Revolt by C.L.R. James

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A History of Pan-African Revolt

By: C.L.R. James

4.26

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

History. African Studies. In the Introduction, Robin D. G. Kelly comments, A HISTORY OF PAN-AFRICAN…

If you liked the race plot in A History of Pan-African Revolt by C.L.R. James , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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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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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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2. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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3. 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
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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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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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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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6. 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
  • history
  • 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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7. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

8. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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9. The Invention of Morel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more

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"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

10. 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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11. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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12. Black No More

By: George S. Schuyler

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Modern Library Harlem Renaissance What would happen to the race problem in America if black people … 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
  • history
  • 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

14. 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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15. The Invention of Tradition

By: Hugh R. Trevor-Roper , David Cannadine , Eric J. Hobsbawm , Prys Morgan , None , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanction… read more

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16. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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17. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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18. Rifqa

By: Mohammed El-Kurd

4.66

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."

-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa

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19. Azadi

By: Arundhati Roy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"

-Arundhati Roy, Azadi

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20. 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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  • politics
  • africa
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. A History of Pan-African Revolt

By: C.L.R. James

4.26

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

History. African Studies. In the Introduction, Robin D. G. Kelly comments, A HISTORY OF PAN-AFRICAN… read more

Similar categories in C.L.R. James's A History of Pan-African Revolt book and C.L.R. James's A History of Pan-African Revolt

  • africa
  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • academic
  • education
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • anti racist

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Lisa Tuttle

3.98

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