6 must-read race books like Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness by Tiffany Lethabo King

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Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness

By: Tiffany Lethabo King

4.33

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonial…

If you liked the race plot in Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness by Tiffany Lethabo King , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)

By: Kevin Kwan

3.95

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an upro… read more

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"Alamak, it's that Ed Saranwrap! I love his music!"

-Kevin Kwan, Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)

"If someone wrote a book about her, no one would believe it."

-Kevin Kwan, Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)

"Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of fear and pain—generations of it. I can acknowledge whenever my mother…"

-Kevin Kwan, Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)

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2. The Round House

By: Louise Erdrich

3.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in th… read more

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3. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By: C.L.R. James

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

By: M. Jacqui Alexander

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today.… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

5. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in s… read more

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6. A Map to the Door of No Return

By: Dionne Brand

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Map to the Door of No Returnis a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity a… read more

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7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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8. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

By: None

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more

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9. Capitalism & Slavery

By: Eric Williams , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more

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10. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)

By: Jessica Marie Johnson

4.27

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
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12. A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

By: Samantha Shannon

4.36

Format: 868 pages, Hardcover

In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Or… read more

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"We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them."

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

"We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them." Thrit"

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

"Tunuva returned to her watching, knowing that this was the last night she would have everything she wanted in the world, all in one place."

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

"Desire had been a madness in her, grounded by a love that had filled her like a breath - as if it had always been meant, written on her soul when it was just a seed."

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

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13. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • 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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15. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

By: Jennifer L. Morgan

4.37

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.18

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more

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  • anthologies
  • indigenous
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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17. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)

By: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human R… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"I wasn’t allowed to be and stay what I was,"

-Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)

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18. M Archive: After the End of the World

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

4.51

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a pl… read more

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  • theory
  • race
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19. Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness

By: Tiffany Lethabo King

4.33

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonial… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Lethabo King's Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness book and Tiffany Lethabo King's Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness

  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • research
  • anthologies
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain by Zeb Tortorici

20. Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain

By: Zeb Tortorici

4.26

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In Sins against Nature Zeb Tortorici explores the prosecution of sex acts in colonial New Spain (pr… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

7 best-selling history books like Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness by Tiffany Lethabo King

Transform Your Habits

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

C.L.R. James

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)

Jessica Marie Johnson

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

Jennifer L. Morgan

4.37

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15 Top history books like The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier

4.02

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