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Intro to Black Radical Politics

• assata: autobiography
• angela davis an autobiography
• angela davis: freedom is a constant struggle
• huey p newton: revolutionary suicide
• what is marxism all about?
• beginners guide to marxism
• huey p newton: to die for the people, collected writings
• w.e.b du bois: w.e.b du bois speaks
• the autobiography of malcom x
• muammar gaddafi: the green book
• walter rodney: groundings with my brothers
• lenin: state and revolution
• kwame ture: stokely speaks, from black power to pan-africanism
• thomas sankara: women’s liberation and the african freedom struggle
• harry haywood: black bolshevik
• w.e.b. du bois: essay collection
• debunking anti-communism myths & propaganda
• karl marx & frederick engels: the communist manifesto
• joseph stalin: dialetical & historical materialism
• reading marx’s “capital” with david harvey
• marxism-leninism study guide
• basic marxism-leninism study plan
• paulo freire: pedagogy of the oppressed
• michael parenti: left anticommunism

Black and Marxist Feminism

• keeanga-yamahtta taylor: how we get free, black feminism and the combahee river collective
• bell hooks: yearning; race, gender, and cultural politics
• oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: african women and feminism
• audre lorde: sister outsider
• claudia jones: an end to the neglect of the negro woman!
• silvia federici: caliban and the witch
• audre lorde: i am your sister
• bell hooks: ain’t i a woman, black women and feminism
• angela davis: modern motherhood, women and family in england

Prison Abolition

• george jackson: blood in my eye
• soledad brother: the prison letters of george jackson
• angela davis: are prisons obsolete?
• angela davis: political prisoners, prisons, and black liberation
• paula c. johnson: voices of african american women in prison

On Racial Capitalism

• jackie wang: carceral capitalism
• e. franklin fraizer: black bourgeoisie
• robin d.g. kelley: hammer and hoe
• cedric j. robinson: black marxism

Critical Race Class Studies

• w.e.b. du bois: black reconstruction
• frantz fanon: black skin, white masks
• patrick wolfe: traces of history; elementary structures of race
• Black Studies Manifesto- Darlene Clark
• Criteria of Black Art- W.E.B Dubois
• Lynch Law- Ida B. Wells
• On Being White and Other Lies- James Baldwin
• James Baldwin Speech from 1965 Debate
• The American Dream and the American Negro- James Baldwin
• The Souls of Black Men- Hazel Carby
• The Case for Reparations- Ta Nehisi Coates
• Cultural Identity and the Diaspora- Stuart Hall
• The Fact of Blackness- Franz Fanon
• Negritude
• Fragments of Epic Memory- Derek Walcott
• The Groundings with My Brothers- Walter Rodney
• The Politics of Healing in the Black Lives Movement- Deva Woodley
• Unapologetic- Charlene Carruthers
• Emergent Strategy- Adrienne Maree Brown
• The Use of the Erotic as Power- Audre Lorde

On Capitalism, Fascism, Imperialism, Neocolonialism, Settler-Colonialism

• frantz fanon: the wretched of the earth
• walter rodney: how europe underdeveloped africa
• eduardo galeano: open veins of latin america
• samir amin: eurocentrism
• michael parenti: blackshirts & reds
• glen sean coulthard: red skin, white masks
• clr james: the black jacobins
• chris harman: a people’s history of the world
• “decolonization is not a metaphor”

Indigenous Studies

• nick estes: our history is the future
• “decolonization is not a metaphor”
• oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: women in the yoruba sphere

On Revolution:

• frantz fanon: towards the african revolution
• kwame nkrumah: africa must unite
• black panthers speak
• kwame ture: ready for revolution
• steve biko: i like what i like; selected writings
• black like mao, red china & black revolution
• che guevera: guerilla warfare
• walter rodney: a history of the guyanese working people, 1881-1905
• return to the source – selected speeches by amilcar cabral
• https://dialecticalartist.wordpress.com/politicalresources/

On Slavery:

• stephanie e. jones-rogers: they were her property

Whiteness Studies

• nell irvin painter: the history of white people
• theodore w allen: the invention of the white race volume I
• theodore w allen: the invention of the white race volume II
• david r. roediger the wages of whiteness
• david r. roediger: seizing freedom, slave emancipation & liberty for all
• karen brodkin: how jews became white folks & what that says about race in america

On Gender, Sexuality, and Masculinities

• c. riley snorton: black on both sides a racial history of trans identity
• essex hemphill: ceremonies
• robert f. reid-pharr: black gay man, essays
• bell hooks: we real cool
• maria lugones: heterosexualism and the colonial modern gender system
• marlon m. bailey: butch queens up in pumps: gender, performance, and ballroom culture in detroit
• robert aldrich: colonialism and homsexuality
• eve kosofsky sedgwick: epistemology of the closet
• https://www.aaihs.org/excavating-black-queer-thought-a-pride-bibliography/
• “the roots of lesbian & gay oppression: a marxist view” by bob mccubbin
• afsaneh najmabadi: women with mustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of iranian modernity
• anne mcclintock: imperial leather: race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial conquest
• oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: gender epistemologies in africa
• oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: the invention of women: making african sense of western gender discourses
• oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: african gender studies a read
• oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: the invention of women
• oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: what gender is motherhood?

Disability Studies

• disability studies

Critical Reads

• marx’s das kapital for beginners
• black panther ten point program

Articles, Speeches, and Essays

• w.e.b. du bois: essay collection
• amiri baraka: essay collection
• james baldwin: the free and the brave
• adrienne rich: compulsory heteorsexuality and lesbian existence
• david m. halperin: essay collection
• e. patrick johnson: black queer studies a critical anthology
• stuart hall: essay collection
• audre lorde: the masters tools will never dismantle the master’s house
• kwame nkrumah: axioms of kwame nkrumah
• angela davis essays on liberation
• clr james: black power, its past, today, and the way ahead
• edward said’s lecture at york university
• kwame ture: we are all africans
• the death of stockley carmichael (and later kwame ture)
• raewyn connell essay collection
• stalin: marxism versus liberalism
• what is dialectical materialism?
• racism in the communist movement
• the logic of lesser evilism
• lenin: the three sources and three component parts of marxism
• oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: de-confounding gender: feminist theorizing and western culture,

Cultural Texts

Bell hooks: all about love

James Baldwin

• go tell it on the mountain
• giovanni's room        
• another country        
• the fire next time
• if beale street could talk        
• Sonny’s blues
• just above my head        
• notes of a native son        
• nobody knows my name        
• rap on race        
• no name in the street        
• a dialogue        
• devil finds work        
• the evidence of things not seen        
• baldwin: collected essays        
• the cross of redemption        

Toni Morrison

• the bluest eye (1969)
• sula (1971)
• song of solomon (1977)
• beloved (1986)
• paradise (1997)
• a mercy (2008)        
• the source of self-regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations (2019)