21 Top nonfiction books like Abolition For The People by Colin Kaepernick

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Abolition For The People

By: Colin Kaepernick

4.09

Format: None pages, None

Edited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolitio…

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1. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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2. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

By: bell hooks

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's lea… read more

Similar categories in bell hooks's Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices) book and Colin Kaepernick's Abolition For The People

  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience."

-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

"sometimes falling rain carries memories of betrayal there in the woods where she was not meant to be too young she believes in her right to be free in her body free from harm believing nature a wilde…"

-bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices)

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3. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

By: Sarah Schulman

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

4. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more

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5. 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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6. 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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7. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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8. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

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9. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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10. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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11. I'm Afraid of Men

By: Vivek Shraya

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

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12. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
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13. Sabrina & Corina

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths … read more

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"Age has nothing to do with sadness."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

"And that is our story of everything."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

"That poor girl. How the world just ate her up."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

"Thanks, but we'll try some home remedies first."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina

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14. Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation

By: John Lewis

4.45

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

*National Bestseller* A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisd… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
"When you see something that is not the way it should be, don’t be afraid. Speak up, speak out, be courageous."

-John Lewis, Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation

"Destruction doesn’t work. Rioting isn’t a movement. We must be constructive and not destructive. Chaos is sowing more division and discord."

-John Lewis, Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation

"During the 1960s, we protested with non-violent methods. There is something peaceful, cleansing, and wholesome about being orderly and not threatening."

-John Lewis, Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation

"Because I had long ago decided that I wasn’t going to be bound by the mental shackles of hate, anger, and discontent. Forgiveness is medicine for the mind, balm for the body, and healing for the hear…"

-John Lewis, Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation

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15. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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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16. 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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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
"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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17. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • sociology
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18. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
  • sociology
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19. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

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20. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

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  • anthologies
Cover of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

21. Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Derecka Purnell

4.44

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From commu… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
  • sociology
"The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation."

-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

"Campus police and street police are different strands of the same supremacy that plague our resistance."

-Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

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22. Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

By: Savala Nolan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • anti racist
  • social justice
Cover of An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

23. An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World

By: Patrisse Khan-Cullors

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In An Abolitionist's Handbook, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectivel… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
Cover of Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph

24. Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

By: Frederick Joseph

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this personal and poignant collection, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Black Fri… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
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25. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
Cover of Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson

26. Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

By: Jenn M. Jackson

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • anthologies
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27. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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28. Abolition For The People

By: Colin Kaepernick

4.09

Format: None pages, None

Edited by activist and former San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Abolitio… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • anthologies
  • education
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist
  • sociology
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29. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

Cover of Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen

30. Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Premilla Nadasen

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponent… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Movement for Black Lives

By: Donna Murch

4.19

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Black Panther and Cuban exile, Assata Shakur, has inspired multiple generations of radical protest,… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anti racist

12 Top history books like Abolition For The People by Colin Kaepernick

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation

John Lewis

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes

4.64

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Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

Headshot

Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

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