8 Top essays books like How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study) by LaMarr Jurelle Bruce

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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)

By: LaMarr Jurelle Bruce

4.61

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jur…

If you liked the essays plot in How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study) by LaMarr Jurelle Bruce , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

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2. The Cancer Journals

By: Audre Lorde

4.43

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more

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  • essays
"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."

-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

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3. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more

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"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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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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  • race
  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • 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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5. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

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"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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6. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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8. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more

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9. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

By: bell hooks

4.18

Format: None pages,

Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction

10. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. 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

12. Mind of My Mind (Patternmaster, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his pr… read more

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13. Clay's Ark (Patternmaster, #3)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world b… read more

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14. Eva's Man

By: Gayl Jones

4.43

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

Imprisoned for the bizarre murder of her lover, Eva Medina Canada recalls a life tormented by sexua… read more

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15. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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16. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more

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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

17. 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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18. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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19. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • art
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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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20. Holding Pattern

By: Jenny Xie

3.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of suspende… read more

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21. 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
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22. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • race
  • theory
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  • philosophy
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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23. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

By: Esmé Weijun Wang

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more

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  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • disability
"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."

-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

24. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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25. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more

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  • disability
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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26. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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27. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

By: Dean Spade

4.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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28. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

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  • disability
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

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29. This Mournable Body

By: Tsitsi Dangarembga

3.34

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable … read more

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"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discourageme…"

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. …"

-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

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30. How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)

By: LaMarr Jurelle Bruce

4.61

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jur… read more

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  • race
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  • mental health
  • philosophy
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31. The Waning (Age of Realignment #1)

By: Wunmi Aramiji

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

I am the beginning and the end. The darkness that creates and devours. The virgin, the mother, an… read more

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