6 Best race books like Feminist International: How to Change Everything by Verónica Gago

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Feminist International: How to Change Everything

By: Verónica Gago

4.16

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

A leader of Latin America’s powerful new women’s movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politics…

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1. A Room of One’s Own

By: Virginia Woolf

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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2. No Logo

By: Naomi Klein

3.89

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"

-Naomi Klein, No Logo

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3. King Kong théorie

By: Virginie Despentes

4.01

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

J’écris de chez les moches, pour les moches, les frigides, les mal baisées, les imbaisables, toutes… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia"

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

"Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía."

-Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

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4. 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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  • politics
  • race
  • 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

5. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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7. Kunskapens frukt

By: Liv Strömquist

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Liv Stromquists nya seriealbum Kunskapens frukt handlar om det som brukar kallas for det kvinnliga … read more

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8. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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9. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

10. The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels #2)

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elen… read more

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11. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

By: Bernie Sanders

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"

-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

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12. O Avesso da Pele

By: Jeferson Tenório

4.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Um romance sobre identidade e as complexas relações raciais, sobre violência e negritude, O avesso … read more

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  • race
"É inventando que consigo ser honesto."

-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

"Compreender as ações dos pais leva anos, às vezes a vida inteira."

-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

"A vida simplesmente acontecia e você simplesmente passava por ela."

-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

"Lembre-se que é ao lado de outra pessoa que aprendemos a nos conhecer."

-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

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13. Premier sang

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.81

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

« Il ne faut pas sous-estimer la rage de survivre. » read more

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  • womens
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14. A pediatra

By: Andréa del Fuego

3.95

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Com humor mordaz, o novo romance de Andréa del Fuego apresenta a história de uma personagem muito p… read more

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  • womens
Cover of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

15. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more

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"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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16. Ragazze perbene

By: Olga Campofreda

3.62

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Nelle città di provincia le ragazze perbene si assomigliano tutte. Per sottrarsi a un futuro già ra… read more

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17. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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18. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

By: Nancy Fraser

4.04

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Canção para ninar menino grande

By: Conceição Evaristo

4.22

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Trata-se de um mosaico afetuoso de experiências negras, um canto amoroso e dolorido. Na figura do p… read more

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  • womens
Cover of The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky

20. The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

By: Noam Chomsky

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An engaging conversation with our most respected public intellectual around how a global Green New … read more

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  • activism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Neoliberalism is a driving force causing the climate crisis. This is because neoliberalism is a variant of classic liberalism, and classical liberalism builds from the idea that everyone should be gr…"

-Noam Chomsky, The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

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21. Huaco retrato

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.89

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
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22. Apeirogon

By: Colum McCann

4.25

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an ep… read more

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  • politics
"We are running from our pain to our pain."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"We have words but sometimes they're not enough."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"When you divide death by life you find a circle."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"He had learned that the cure for fate was patience."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

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23. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • gender
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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24. Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

By: Kristen R. Ghodsee

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done rig… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"If done properly, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work/family balance, and, yes, even better sex."

-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

"The state of being female is complicated by other categories such as class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, and so on."

-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

"You are not a commodity. Your depression and anxiety are not just chemical imbalances in your brain but reasonable responses to a system that thrives on your dehumanization."

-Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

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25. El patriarcado del salario: Críticas feministas al marxismo

By: Silvia Federici

4.20

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Marx entendió el capitalismo como una etapa necesaria para llegar a una sociedad sin clases en un m… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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26. Small Worlds

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.32

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azu… read more

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  • race
"Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

"It's here, when I'm with her, I know that a world can be two people, occupying a space where we don't have to explain. Where we can feel beautiful. Where we might feel free."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Small Worlds

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27. 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
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions by Astra Taylor

28. Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions

By: Astra Taylor

4.01

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation o… read more

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  • activism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. Feminist International: How to Change Everything

By: Verónica Gago

4.16

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

A leader of Latin America’s powerful new women’s movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politics… read more

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  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • grad school
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • activism
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30. Las estructuras elementales de la violencia: Ensayos sobre género entre la antropología, el psicoanálisis y los derechos humanos

By: Rita Segato

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Book by Segato, Rita Laura read more

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  • womens
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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31. Caccia alle streghe e Capitale. Donne, accumulazione, riproduzione

By: Silvia Federici

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Silvia Federici ha trasformato il modo di leggere la nascita e lo sviluppo del capitalismo: lungi d… read more

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11 Best womens books like Feminist International: How to Change Everything by Verónica Gago

Transform Your Habits

A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

4.21

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King Kong théorie

Virginie Despentes

4.01

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Premier sang

Amélie Nothomb

3.81

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A pediatra

Andréa del Fuego

3.95

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Underground Time

Delphine de Vigan

3.83

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Baumgartner

Paul Auster

3.78

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Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

Irene Solà

3.91

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Alana S. Portero

4.55

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