15 must-read nonfiction books like The Colonizer and the Colonized by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Memmi, Susan Gilson Miller, Susan Gibson Miller

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The Colonizer and the Colonized

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Albert Memmi , Susan Gilson Miller , Susan Gibson Miller

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of col…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Colonizer and the Colonized by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Memmi, Susan Gilson Miller, Susan Gibson Miller , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed

By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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3. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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4. 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
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • 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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5. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga

4.52

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. … read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

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6. 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
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods

By: Shawn Wilson , Shawn Wilson

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Describing a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, this study de… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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8. BATONS A MESSAGE TSHISSINUASHITAKANA

By: Josephine Bacon

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Colonizer and the Colonized

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Albert Memmi , Susan Gilson Miller , Susan Gibson Miller

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of col… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

10. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith

4.25

Format: None pages,

From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… 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. Islands of Decolonial Love

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more

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13. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

By: bell hooks

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory:… read more

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14. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

15. 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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16. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

By: None

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more

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17. 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
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18. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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19. «C'est le Québec qui est né dans mon pays!» : Carnet de rencontres, d'Ani Kuni à Kiuna

By: Emanuelle Dufour

4.26

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

«La vérité, c’est que je suis Québécoise, que ma famille habite leur territoire traditionnel depuis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

4.66

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

11 must-read history books like The Colonizer and the Colonized by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Memmi, Susan Gilson Miller, Susan Gibson Miller

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

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15 must-read history books like Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein

Transform Your Habits

On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt

4.07

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