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Elegy for Mary Turner

by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork
A Kick in the Belly

by Stella Dadzie

The story of how enslaved women struggled for freedom in the West Indies

7 posts
Hostile Environment

by Maya Goodfellow

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politics

12 posts
The Black Romantic Revolution

by Matt Sandler

The prophetic poetry of slavery and its abolition

2 posts

The Common Wind

by Julius S. Scott

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

9 posts
Revolutionary Feminisms

Edited by Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah

A unique book, tracing forty years of anti-racist feminist thought

11 posts
The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

The bestselling study of Jewish history

38 posts
The Future of Difference

by Sabine Hark and Paula-Irene Villa

A feminist critique of racist feminisms

5 posts

Set the Night on Fire

by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the Sixties

14 posts
Reactionary Democracy

by Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter

Democracy must be anti-racist. Any less is cowardly. Any less is reactionary

6 posts
The Burmese Labyrinth

by Carlos Sardiña Galache

A first-hand account of the complex, bloody history of Myanmar and the origins of the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingyas

2 posts
Toward Freedom

by Touré F. Reed

In the age of runaway inequality and Black Lives matter, there is an emerging consensus that our society has failed to redress racial disparities. But who is the culprit?

5 posts

Holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia

by Winston James

Recipient of the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship

6 posts
Born Jewish

by Marcel Liebman

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

3 posts
Antisemitism and the Labour Party

Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner

What is the truth behind the claims of antisemitism against Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party?

4 posts
The Haitian Revolution

by Toussaint L'Ouverture
Haiti’s ousted premier on the leader of the world’s first black republic
5 posts

Latinx

by Ed Morales

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

13 posts
Class, Race, and Marxism

by David R. Roediger

Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship

26 posts
How Race Survived US History

by David R. Roediger

An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor

38 posts
Imperial Intimacies

by Hazel V. Carby

A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman’s family story

10 posts

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