14 Top nonfiction books like Stand Up Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings On Nation, Class and Patriarchy by Sanyika Shakur

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Stand Up Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings On Nation, Class and Patriarchy

By: Sanyika Shakur

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“It was over 20 years ago that the book Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member exploded …

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1. The Communist Necessity

By: J. Moufawad-Paul

4.06

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

There was a time when we proclaimed that we were part of a beautiful and fragmented chaos of affini… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

By: Audre Lorde

4.43

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

"These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."—Adrienne Rich "The first declaration of a blac… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"I see much better now and my eyes hurt."

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

"Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home."

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

"The Seventh Sense" Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea"

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

"And I knew when I entered her I was high wind in her forests hollow fingers whispering sound honey flowed from the split cup impaled on a lance of tongues on the tips of her breasts on her navel and …"

-Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

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3. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

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4. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

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5. Blood in My Eye

By: George L. Jackson

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. False Nationalism False Internationalism

By: E. Tani , Kaé Sera

5.00

Format: None pages, Photocopy spiral bound

read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. 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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8. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

9. Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3)

By: Cassandra Clare

3.88

Format: 383 pages,

From the Author's Website: The Last Hours is a new Shadowhunters series set in 1903. It deals with … read more

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10. Middlesex

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Middlesextells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-A… read more

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11. Slow River

By: Nicola Griffith

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still … read more

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12. 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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13. Pet (Pet, #1)

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking and haunting novel about a creature that escapes from an artist's canvas, whose… read more

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"Monsters don't look like anything, That's the whole point. That's the whole problem."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

"It's hard to build a new world without making people angry. You try your best, you move with compassion, you think about the big structures. No revolution is perfect."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

" What does a monster look like? Jam asked. Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. "Monsters don't look like anything, doux-doux. That's the whole point. That's the whole probl…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

"Bitter knew her name was heavy but she hadn't minded because it was honest. That was something she'd taught Jam - that a lot of things were manageable as long as they were honest. You could see thing…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

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14. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's There There book and Sanyika Shakur's Stand Up Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings On Nation, Class and Patriarchy

  • race
"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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15. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

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"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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16. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

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"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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17. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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18. The Death of Vivek Oji

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.13

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienti… read more

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"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

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19. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

By: Akwaeke Emezi

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more

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"if it's real, the distance won't change it."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

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20. Histories of the Transgender Child

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.40

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal

By: Pao-Yu Ching

4.26

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

How can a country that developed the most advanced socialist society in the history of the world ch… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"We have the choice of either burying our heads in the sand and accepting the verdict of leading capitalist propaganda that socialism has failed and capitalism has won, thus signaling the end of histo…"

-Pao-Yu Ching, From Victory to Defeat: China's Socialist Road and Capitalist Reversal

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22. Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

By: Walter Rodney

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of … read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism by Kōhei Saitō

23. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.98

Format: 300 pages, ebook

Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrat… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. Summer Fun

By: Jeanne Thornton

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and t… read more

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"We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that."

-Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun

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25. Gore Capitalism

By: Sayak Valencia

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of cap… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. The CP, the Sixties, the RCP, and the Crying Need for a Communist Vanguard Party Today (kites journal, #8)

By: Organization of Communist Revolutionaries

4.45

Format: 573 pages, Paperback

This issue of kites consists entirely of a major new document from the Organization of Communist Re… read more

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27. A Million Quiet Revolutions

By: Robin Gow

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For as long as they can remember, Aaron and Oliver have only ever had each other. In a small town w… read more

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"I feel like the only way to exist as a queer person is to hide."

-Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions

"It’s hard to search for someone like yourself when you’re not even sure who you are."

-Robin Gow, A Million Quiet Revolutions

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28. Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement

By: Robert Biel

4.27

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Robert Biel's Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement traces the history of Eurocentric -- and anti… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Stand Up Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings On Nation, Class and Patriarchy

By: Sanyika Shakur

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“It was over 20 years ago that the book Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member exploded … read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind by Safiya Bukhari

30. The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind

By: Safiya Bukhari

4.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An inspiring memoir from a legendary activist and political prisoner that “reminds us of the sheer … read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Spy and Her Serpent (Those Who Bear Arms, #2) by Maria Ying

31. The Spy and Her Serpent (Those Who Bear Arms, #2)

By: Maria Ying

4.47

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

Olesya Hua, narcotics empress …has everything: power, wealth, and a city that'll soon be hers. B… read more

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11 Best history books like Stand Up Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings On Nation, Class and Patriarchy by Sanyika Shakur

Transform Your Habits

The Communist Necessity

J. Moufawad-Paul

4.06

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Blood in My Eye

George L. Jackson

3.32

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False Nationalism False Internationalism

E. Tani , Kaé Sera

5.00

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The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

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Torrey Peters

4.12

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Casey Plett

4.07

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Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

3.68

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