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Archive of The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1

    Verso Books
    24 August 2021
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    Race and Ethnicity: Verso Student Reading

    Featuring Priya Gopal, Walter Rodney, Stella Dadzie and more.

    Theodore W. Allen
    28 September 2020
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    The Anatomy of Racial Oppression

    Theodore W. Allen draws lessons from Irish history, comparing British rule in Ireland with the “white” oppression of Native Americans and African Americans, in this excerpt from The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1, a groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.

    Verso Books
    25 June 2020
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    The Souls of White Folk

    An essay by W.E.B. Du Bois on the imperial roots of American racism. 

    Verso Books
    02 June 2020
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    Abolition and Black Struggle

    The police have always been used as a tool for the social control of minority populations and to protect the power and property of the elite. A reading list that puts the call for the abolishment of the police in historical context.

    Verso Books
    19 May 2020
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    Decolonization and anti-racism

    Books that challenge the notion of empire and offer a history of anti-colonial, anti-racist struggle.

    Verso Books
    11 May 2020
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    Black Radicalism: A Verso Reading List

    A reading list inspired by Black radicalism, featuring Julius Scott's The Common Wind as well as Angela Davis, Manning Marable, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

    Verso Books
    13 June 2019
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    Walter Rodney | a bookshelf

    Walter Rodney's groundbreaking work, alongside key artists, writers and activists of the Black radical tradition.

    Christina Heatherton
    16 July 2017
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    Not Just Being Right, But Getting Free: Reflections on Class, Race, and Marxism

    How should we think about the relationship between race and class on the left? As Christina Heatherton reminds us in this series of reflections on David Roediger's new book Class, Race, and Marxism the point is not to be right, but to get free.

    George Rawick
    14 July 2017
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    George Rawick: Working Class Self-Activity

    A classic essay from one of America's pioneering historians of slavery and the US working-class.

    David Roediger
    13 July 2017
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    David Roediger - Making Solidarity Uneasy: Cautions on a Keyword from Black Lives Matter to the Past

    Solidarity is a central concept in the left political lexicon, yet, as David Roediger shows in this extract from Class, Race and Marxism, solidarity is anything but simple and easy. See all our race and class reading here.

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