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…
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1. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
By: None
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of fed… read more
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
3.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Many promote Reconciliation as a "new" way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing o… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
9. 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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"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)
10. 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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"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
11. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
12. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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13. The Circle
By: Katherena Vermette
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more
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- canada
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14. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more
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"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
15. Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
4.48
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
New collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geogr… read more
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"Where life is precious, life is precious."-Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
16. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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17. 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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18. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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19. 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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"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
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-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
20. Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
By: Chelsea Vowel
4.13
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign… read more
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21. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World , Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning colle… read more
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"A country is how men hunt in the dark"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
"What an ugly, necessary monster I made of myself." from "The Wall Clock Caught Fire From Neglect"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
