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Intro to Black Radical Politics
- assata: autobiography
- angela davis an autobiography
- angela davis: freedom is a constant struggle
- huey p newton: revolutionary suicide
- huey p newton: to die for the people, collected writings
- w.e.b du bois: w.e.b du bois speaks
- the autobiography of malcom x
- walter rodney: groundings with my brothers
- kwame ture: stokely speaks, from black power to pan-africanism
- thomas sankara: women’s liberation and the african freedom struggle
- w.e.b. du bois: essay collection
- paulo freire: pedagogy of the oppressed
Black Feminism
- keeanga-yamahtta taylor: how we get free, black feminism and the combahee river collective
- bell hooks: yearning; race, gender, and cultural politics
- oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: african women and feminism
- audre lorde: sister outsider
- claudia jones: an end to the neglect of the negro woman!
- silvia federici: caliban and the witch
- audre lorde: i am your sister
- bell hooks: ain’t i a woman, black women and feminism
- angela davis: modern motherhood, women and family in england
Prison Abolition
- george jackson: blood in my eye
- soledad brother: the prison letters of george jackson
- angela davis: are prisons obsolete?
- angela davis: political prisoners, prisons, and black liberation
- paula c. johnson: voices of african american women in prison
Critical Race Class Studies
- w.e.b. du bois: black reconstruction
- frantz fanon: black skin, white masks
- patrick wolfe: traces of history; elementary structures of race
- Black Studies Manifesto– Darlene Clark
- Criteria of Black Art– W.E.B Dubois
- Lynch Law- Ida B. Wells
- On Being White and Other Lies– James Baldwin
- James Baldwin Speech from 1965 Debate
- The American Dream and the American Negro– James Baldwin
- The Souls of Black Men– Hazel Carby
- The Case for Reparations– Ta Nehisi Coates
- Cultural Identity and the Diaspora– Stuart Hall
- The Fact of Blackness– Franz Fanon
- Negritude
- Fragments of Epic Memory– Derek Walcott
- The Groundings with My Brothers– Walter Rodney
- The Politics of Healing in the Black Lives Movement– Deva Woodley
- Unapologetic– Charlene Carruthers
- Emergent Strategy– Adrienne Maree Brown
- The Use of the Erotic as Power– Audre Lorde
On Imperialism, Neocolonialism, Settler-Colonialism
- frantz fanon: the wretched of the earth
- walter rodney: how europe underdeveloped africa
- eduardo galeano: open veins of latin america
- samir amin: eurocentrism
- michael parenti: blackshirts & reds
- glen sean coulthard: red skin, white masks
- clr james: the black jacobins
- chris harman: a people’s history of the world
- “decolonization is not a metaphor”
Slavery
- stephanie e. jones-rogers: they were her property
- david r. roediger: seizing freedom, slave emancipation & liberty for all
On Gender, Sexuality, and Masculinities
- essex hemphill: ceremonies
- robert f. reid-pharr: black gay man, essays
- bell hooks: we real cool
- maria lugones: heterosexualism and the colonial modern gender system
- marlon m. bailey: butch queens up in pumps: gender, performance, and ballroom culture in detroit
- robert aldrich: colonialism and homsexuality
- eve kosofsky sedgwick: epistemology of the closet
- https://www.aaihs.org/excavating-black-queer-thought-a-pride-bibliography/
- anne mcclintock: imperial leather: race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial conquest
- oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: gender epistemologies in africa
- oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: the invention of women: making african sense of western gender discourses
- oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: african gender studies a read
- oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: the invention of women
- oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: what gender is motherhood?
Articles, Speeches, and Essays
- w.e.b. du bois: essay collection
- amiri baraka: essay collection
- james baldwin: the free and the brave
- adrienne rich: compulsory heteorsexuality and lesbian existence
- david m. halperin: essay collection
- e. patrick johnson: black queer studies a critical anthology
- stuart hall: essay collection
- audre lorde: the masters tools will never dismantle the master’s house
- kwame nkrumah: axioms of kwame nkrumah
- angela davis essays on liberation
- clr james: black power, its past, today, and the way ahead
- edward said’s lecture at york university
- kwame ture: we are all africans
- the death of stockley carmichael (and later kwame ture)
- raewyn connell essay collection
- stalin: marxism versus liberalism
- what is dialectical materialism?
- racism in the communist movement
- the logic of lesser evilism
- lenin: the three sources and three component parts of marxism
- oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: de-confounding gender: feminist theorizing and western culture,
