14 Top history books like Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States by Charisse Burden-Stelly

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Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

By: Charisse Burden-Stelly

4.46

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti…

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1. 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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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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2. A Dying Colonialism

By: Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria … read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelley

5. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

By: Robin D.G. Kelley

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. 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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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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8. Jazz

By: Toni Morrison

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more

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9. 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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10. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

By: Ewuare X. Osayande , Robert L. Allen , None , Paul Kivel , Andrea Smith , Dylan Rodríguez , Incite! Women of Color Against Violence , Ruth Wilson Gilmore , None , None , None , Alisa Bierria , None , None , Eric Tang , None , None , None , None , Tiffany Lethabo King , None

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

A $1.3 trillion industry, the US nonprofit sector is the world's seventh largest economy. From art … read more

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11. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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12. Evil Eye

By: Etaf Rum

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more

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"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

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13. Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

By: Sumaya Awad

4.36

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in soc… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Interestingly, the "Zioness Movement" sprouted on the US activist scene with the explicit intention to counter feminists who were successfully denouncing Zionism. It chose the slogan, "Unabashedly pr…"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

"White/Western feminism's attempt at erasing the political context of Palestinian women's oppression was evident yet again around the 2017 Women's March on Washington, when liberal feminists objected …"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

"The Black radical tradition calls attention to the anti-Black racism essential to US society and casts doubt on the compatibility of Black freedom and the United States project. After all, the Black …"

-Sumaya Awad, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

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14. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.47

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The things we do to stay close to the people we think will carry us through an entire lifetime..."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)

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15. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more

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"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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17. 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 Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton

18. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

By: Orisanmi Burton

4.81

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitioni… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • united states
  • nonfiction
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19. These Ghosts Are Family

By: Maisy Card

3.66

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures ove… read more

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"I had thought the Christmas Rebellion an act of treason; now I saw that for those in bondage, violence was the only choice."

-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family

"Even though they were just words, they built a world that she couldn’t stop thinking about, that she felt trapped inside every night."

-Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family

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20. Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

By: Charisse Burden-Stelly

4.46

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government’s anti… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • united states
  • nonfiction
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21. Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity)

By: Michael R. Fischbach

4.42

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The 1967 Arab–Israeli War rocketed the question of Israel and Palestine onto the front pages of Ame… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction

13 Top politics books like Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States by Charisse Burden-Stelly

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

Transform Your Habits

A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

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15 Top history books like Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelley

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

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