I have been getting a lot of emails & questions from hordes of people about what books to read in regards to political liberation. Below I have compiled a list of readings separated by topic. This is an introductory reading list so it does not have everything BUT it provides some CORE books that are AMAZING starting points. Below is a nice little list that I put together & I hope everyone can benefit from it. If you have any awesome pieces of literature on political liberation to suggest leave a comment below!!!
Anti-Racism & Pan Africanism:
Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Consciencism by Kwame Nkrumah****
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work For Racial Justice by Paul Kivel
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
RACE: Are We So Different? By Alan Goodman, Yolanda Moses, & Joseph Jones
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
Teaching Community by bell hooks
Class Struggle in Africa by Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare by Kwame Nkrumah
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
To Die for the People by Huey Newton
The African Dream by Che Guevara
Africa Must Unite by Kwame Nkrumah
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara
Teaching Critical Thinking by bell hooks
We Are Heirs to the World’s Revolutions by Thomas Sankara
Black Liberation & Socialism by Ahmed Shawki
Poor People’s Movements by Frances Fox Piven
History:
The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe
Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts
An Indigenous People’s History of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Pre-Colonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop
Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop
Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton
When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Fear Itself by Ira Katznelson
Racial Formation In The United States (3rd Edition) by Michael Omi & Howard Winant
Capitalism & Slavery by Eric Williams
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The World & Africa by W.E.B. Du Bois
A History of Pan African Revolt by C.L.R. James
Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution by Hugo Chavez
A Poetics of Resistance by Jeff Conant
The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen
Black Feminism:
Black Macho & The Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Black Sexual Politics by Dr. Patricia Hill-Collins
Black Feminist Though by Dr. Patricia Hill-Collins
All About Love by bell hooks
Communion by bell hooks
Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Dr. Shorter-Gooden & Charisse Jones
The Invention of Women by Oyeronke Oyewumi
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC by Faith Holsaert
At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire
Women’s Liberation & the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
Rock My Soul: Black People & Self Esteem by bell hooks
Sisters Of The Yam by bell hooks
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, & Black Feminist Theories Of The Human by Alexander G. Weheliye
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