8 Best race books like Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

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Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.53

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. M…

If you liked the race plot in Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's An Autobiography book and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

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2. 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
  • social justice

3. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

By: Naomi Klein

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more

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4. Metropolitan Life

By: Fran Lebowitz

4.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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5. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World book and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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6. Rehearsals for Living

By: Robyn Maynard

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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7. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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8. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

By: Audre Lorde

4.55

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"There are no new pains."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"

-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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9. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

By: Nancy Fraser

4.04

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
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10. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

By: Troy Vettese

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

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11. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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12. Coventry: Essays

By: Rachel Cusk

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."

-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays

"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"

-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays

"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"

-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays

"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"

-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays

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13. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

By: Harsha Walia

4.59

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"

-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

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14. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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15. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.91

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
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16. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

By: Naomi Klein

4.23

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfoldin… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
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17. No More Police: A Case for Abolition

By: Mariame Kaba

4.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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18. A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal

By: Kate Aronoff

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics. The age of climate gradualism is… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
"For better and for worse, our choice now is between eco-socialism or eco-apartheid."

-Kate Aronoff, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal

"The climate crisis has been long framed as an issue of either techno-utopian tinkering, entrusting a few billionaires to save the day, or of collective self-sacrifices - us versus us. Have fewer chil…"

-Kate Aronoff, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal

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19. Mean Boys: A Personal History

By: Geoffrey Mak

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Monsters and Gay Bar , a ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.53

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. M… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • climate change
  • economics
  • sociology
  • environment
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21. 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

10 Best history books like Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Transform Your Habits

An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

4.61

Transform Your Habits

Rehearsals for Living

Robyn Maynard

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

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14 Best audiobook books like Mean Boys: A Personal History by Geoffrey Mak

Transform Your Habits

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Blackouts

Justin Torres

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Parade

Rachel Cusk

3.70

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