5 must-read race books like Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women by The Shoal Collective

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Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women

By: The Shoal Collective

4.83

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Compiled by Shoal Collective, this series of interviews with Palestinian women covers their struggl…

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1. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

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2. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

3. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history

4. APHRO-ISM: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters

By: Aph Ko , Syl Ko

3.87

Format: 216 pages,

In this lively, accessible, and provocative collection, Aph and Syl Ko provide new theoretical fram… read more

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  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction

5. Salt Houses

By: Hala Alyan

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more

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6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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7. Returning to Reims

By: Didier Eribon , George Chauncey , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sex… read more

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8. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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9. 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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10. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

By: Jehad Abusalim

4.70

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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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12. After Sappho

By: Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What did we want? To begin with, we wanted what half the population had got by just being born. … read more

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  • feminism
"The death of a child makes a barbaric sound, even in print."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"But some of us have always seen the modern world as a sea meant to drown us."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"We were going to be sappho, but how did Sappho begin to become herself? P.40"

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

"There is always this risk, in life, that we have our parts in a tragedy and we do not know it."

-Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

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13. Changer : méthode

By: Édouard Louis

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé to… read more

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14. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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15. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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16. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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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18. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

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

19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
Cover of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

20. 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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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
"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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21. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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22. The Democracy of Species

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.49

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When we rely deeply on other lives, there is an urgency to protect them. Our ancestors, who had so few material possessions, devoted a great of attention to this question, while we are drowning in po…"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

"Taking coal buried deep in the earth, for which we must inflict irreparable damage, violates every precept of the code [of honorable harvest]. By no stretch of the imagination is coal 'given to us'. …"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

"Cautionary stories of the consequences of taking too much are ubiquitous in Native cultures, but it’s hard to recall a single one in English. Perhaps this helps to explain why we seem to be caught in…"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

"We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the…"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

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23. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By: Mariame Kaba

4.67

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more

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  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"

-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

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24. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

25. Against the Loveless World

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more

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  • feminism
"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

Cover of The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power by Noam Chomsky

26. The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power

By: Noam Chomsky

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American colla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Un féminisme décolonial by Françoise Vergès

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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  • feminism
  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine by Nada Elia

28. Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

By: Nada Elia

4.58

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An inspiring and intersectional re-imagining of the path to liberation in Palestine 'An inspiring c… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Queerș pentru Palestina. Luări de poziție, eseuri și poeme by Blocul Roz

29. Queerș pentru Palestina. Luări de poziție, eseuri și poeme

By: Blocul Roz

5.00

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Având în vedere felul în care identitățile queer sunt instrumentalizate în discursul colonizator al… read more

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30. Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women

By: The Shoal Collective

4.83

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Compiled by Shoal Collective, this series of interviews with Palestinian women covers their struggl… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS by Janet Biehl

31. Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the War on ISIS

By: Janet Biehl

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history

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4.25

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4.42

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