Archive of Invisibility Blues

Challenge your imposed reading.

Our Sociology reading for the academic year ahead.

Foundational Marxist critiques of feminism in the age of neoliberalism, with contemporary books on the family, sex work, and gender identity.

Feminist reading featuring Nancy Fraser, Nina Lakhani, Andrea Long Chu, Juno Mac and Molly Smith, Leta Hong Fincher, Sophie Lewis and Elizabeth Martínez.

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

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.

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

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.

Fundamental reading on race, ethnicity and anti-colonialism.

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