Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective
By: Lorgia García Peña
4.60
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In Translating Blackness Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in or…
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1. Song of Solomon
By: Toni Morrison
4.14
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain… read more
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"Her passions were narrow but deep."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"He can't value you more than you value yourself."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!"-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
2. 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
3. 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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4. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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5. The Sirens of Titan
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depr… read more
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6. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
By: Cedric J. Robinson
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to under… 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. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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9. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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10. Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
By: Cynthia Enloe
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics … read more
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11. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
12. Mutual Aid
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
In 'Mutual Aid', Peter Kropotkin attacks the use of Darwinism as a social theory, arguing that coop… read more
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13. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.42
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more
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"Time is the cruelest force of all."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
14. 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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15. 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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16. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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17. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
18. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
19. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
20. The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
By: The Care Collective
3.80
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it? The Care Manifesto puts… read more
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"Una visione politica realmente globale richiede allora di abbracciare quello che definiamo un cosmopolitismo quotidiano, una cura promiscua su scala globale che porti la nostra visione della cura al …"-The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
21. Pollution Is Colonialism
By: Max Liboiron
4.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In Pollution is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research… read more
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22. The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
By: William C. Anderson
4.50
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, and ideological tensions within the struggle … read more
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23. Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective
By: Lorgia García Peña
4.60
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In Translating Blackness Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in or… read more
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