Archive of Racecraft

A definitive list of books that you need to read.

Our selected reading on Race for the academic year ahead.

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

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

Our bestselling books on feminism, gender, race, and political theory by Verso's top women authors. 

Fundamental reading on race, ethnicity and anti-colonialism.

October 1970, Women's House of Detention, New York

Frantz Fanon, the great Martinican psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary, was born on this day in 1925. In this extract from Fanon: A Biography, David Macey explores the afterlives of Fanon's thought.

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.