Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
By: Calvin L. Warren
3.81
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and …
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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. The Racial Contract
By: Charles W. Mills
4.38
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory to extraordinary radical use. Wi… read more
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3. The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more
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"Lonely was much better than alone."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
4. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
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"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
5. 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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"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
6. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
By: Christina Sharpe
3.39
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and… read more
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7. 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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8. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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9. 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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10. Kindred
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindredhas become a cornerstone of black Americ… read more
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11. 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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12. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
By: Kimberlé Crenshaw , None , None , None
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed h… read more
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13. Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
By: Shannon Sullivan , Nancy Tuana
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignor… read more
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14. Red, White Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms
By: Frank B. Wilderson III
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Red, White & Blackis a provocative critique of socially engaged films and related critical discours… read more
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15. Belonging: A Culture of Place
By: bell hooks
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
>What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can… read more
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16. A Map to the Door of No Return
By: Dionne Brand
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Map to the Door of No Returnis a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity a… read more
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17. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
By: None , Lee Edelman
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more
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18. 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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19. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
By: Saidiya Hartman
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath… read more
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20. Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jon… read more
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21. An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
By: Lewis R. Gordon
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana… read more
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22. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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23. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
By: Dorothy Roberts
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activ… read more
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24. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
25. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
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"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
26. 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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27. 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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"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
28. Critique of Black Reason (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
By: Achille Mbembe
4.08
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the categ… read more
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29. 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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30. Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
By: Calvin L. Warren
3.81
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and … read more
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31. Afro-Pessimism: An Introduction
By: Frank B. Wilderson III
3.99
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Afro-Pessimism illuminates, with the intention to abolish, the omnipresence or anti-Black racism in… read more
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