19 best-selling politics books like Fear of Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon

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Fear of Black Consciousness

By: Lewis R. Gordon

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by…

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

By: Paul Gilroy

4.03

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural national… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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3. For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

By: Louis Althusser

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A milestone in the development of post-war Marxist thought. This is the work in which Louis Alth… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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4. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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5. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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6. 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
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"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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7. 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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8. 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
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9. Blue of Noon

By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic take… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre, Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre, Annie Cohen-Solal, None

10. Existentialism Is a Humanism

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre , Annie Cohen-Solal , None

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to spe… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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11. God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

By: Christopher Hill

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts: fenland… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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14. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o , None

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ngugi describes this book as "a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately inv… read more

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15. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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16. The Passion According to G.H.

By: Clarice Lispector , None

4.13

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more

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  • philosophy
"I don't want beauty, I want identity."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."

-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

17. Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweekas "one of the … read more

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18. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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19. 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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20. Thick: And Other Essays

By: Tressie McMillan Cottom

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today'… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"I fix myself, even when it causes great pain to do so, because I know that I cannot fix the way the world sees me."

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"Indeed, any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?"

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"Smart is only a construct of correspondence between one's abilities, one's environment, and one's moment in history. I am smart in the right way, in the right time, on the right end of globalization."

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

"The networks of capital, be they politics or organizations, work most effeciently when your lowedst status characteristic is assumed. And once these gears are in motion, you can never be competent en…"

-Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

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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
  • nonfiction
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22. Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

By: Noam Chomsky

4.38

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular un… read more

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  • politics
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"The logic is that of a man falling from a skyscraper who waves to a friend on the fiftieth floor and says it's all fine, just look how many floors I've passed with no problems."

-Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

"In other words, first we rob and then destroy them, and then when they ask for a little bit of help, we kick them in the face. The technical term for this is "Western civilization"."

-Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

"Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly line. It’s so onerous that people dropped out. They couldn’t s…"

-Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

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23. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Scattered All Over the Earth

By: Yōko Tawada

3.27

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now re… read more

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"People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are."

-Yōko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth

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25. Tonight It’s a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics

By: Bill Peel

3.90

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black metal and uncovers the… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. Afropessimism

By: Frank B. Wilderson III

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Bla… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"As a boy I seldom lived in the present. It hurt too much to be in the present. When I occurred to myself I was myself in the future."

-Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism

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27. The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

By: Kehinde Andrews

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-black colonialism con… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • sociology
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28. On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis

By: Walter D. Mignolo

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colon… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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29. Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher

By: Matt Colquhoun

4.06

Format: 300 pages, None

Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult ac… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. Fear of Black Consciousness

By: Lewis R. Gordon

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by… read more

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  • race
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • sociology
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31. They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence

By: Lauren Benton

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires Imperial conquest a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

14 Best philosophy books like Fear of Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon

Transform Your Habits

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Paul Gilroy

4.03

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For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

Louis Althusser

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

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4.12

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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3.88

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