Black History Month | Reading List

Book strip #1

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  This Fiction Called Nigeria

  by Adéwálé Májà-Pearce

  In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous coun...
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  Decolonial Marxism

  by Walter Rodney

  Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and o...
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  Darkwater

  by W. E. B. Du Bois

  Foreword by Manning Marable

  Introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

  “I have been in the world, but not of it,” W.E.B. Du Bois begins this book, a continuation of the project he began in his celebrated work The Souls of Black Folk, describing the devastation of segr...
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  Black Meme

  by Legacy Russell

  In BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and co...
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  A Kick in the Belly

  by Stella Dadzie

  The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical r...
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  Red Africa

  by Kevin Ochieng Okoth

  Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anticolonial struggles in Africa. Contemporary debates on Black radicalism and decolonisation have lost sight of the...
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  The South

  by Adolph L. Reed Jr.

  Foreword by Barbara J. Fields

  The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but ...
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  The Common Wind

  by Julius S. Scott

  The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of o...
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  Organize, Fight, Win

  by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean

  Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete mater...
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  The Reckoning

  by Robin Blackburn

  The Age of Revolution (1776–1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a ‘Second Slavery’ surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a sy...
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  Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity

  by Noel Ignatiev

  Foreword by David R. Roediger

  Edited by Geert Dhondt, Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan

  For sixty years, Noel Ignatiev provided an unflinching account of “whiteness” — a social fiction and an unmitigated disaster for all working-class people. This new essay collection from the late fi...