Against Innocence
By: Jackie Wang
4.70
Format: 44 pages, None
"The political response to the murder of Troy Davis does not challenge the assumption that communit…
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1. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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- race
- history
- theory
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- social justice
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
2. 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
- history
- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
"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
3. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.07
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever sinc… read more
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- race
- history
- theory
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- nonfiction
- social justice
4. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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- philosophy
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
5. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
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7. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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8. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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9. Ten Myths about Israel
By: Ilan Pappé
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more
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10. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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12. Severance
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more
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"New York has a way of forgetting you."-Ling Ma, Severance
"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."-Ling Ma, Severance
"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."-Ling Ma, Severance
"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."-Ling Ma, Severance
13. 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
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- theory
- 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
14. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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- race
- history
- theory
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- nonfiction
15. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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- race
"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
16. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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- theory
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
17. A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective
By: Françoise Vergès
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN… read more
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18. Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany (Palestine Essays, #47)
By: Faris Glubb
4.28
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
From the introduction: "Despite the appearance of large numbers of books on Nazi Germany's barba… read more
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19. Against Innocence
By: Jackie Wang
4.70
Format: 44 pages, None
"The political response to the murder of Troy Davis does not challenge the assumption that communit… read more
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- crime
20. Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
By: Eric A. Stanley
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell,… read more
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21. Organization Means Commitment
By: Grace Lee Boggs
4.71
Format: 20 pages, Paperback
This reprint from the revolutionary New Afrikan journal Vita Wa Watu was originally published by th… read more
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