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2 | 1933 was a Bad Year | John Fante | 1 | At once the story of class and an individual's struggle during hard times in America, 1933 was a Bad Year is a wonderful tale of childhood and its dissipation into adulthood. Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming an American sports hero. This teenage southpaw aspires to the big leagues, big recognition and big love. He struggles, though, against the reality of his Italian parents, and comes under pressure to go into the family business. Brick-laying is not for Dominic. His father, however, seeks to pre-empt the inevitable road to failure by wanting Dominic to pick up a trowel instead of a pitcher's glove. His mother's response is to pray. | #Class #Intersectionality #USA #Immigration #Econimics | Fiction | Editors' Note We have tried our best to catagorise our library along the themes of what we think is most commonly applicable and of interest to our readers. Saying this, we haven't read every book in the library, and some may be incorrectly tagged. If you feel that a book is incorrectly tagged, missing tags, or that our database needs a new tag, please feel free to let us know via email or instagram. :) lendinglibraryleeds@gmail.com @wharf_radical_lending_library #Abolition #Africa #Anarchism #Antifascism #Antiracism #Arab #Article #Arts #Asia #Bi #Biography #Black #Brown #Bodies #Capitalism #Carribean #Class #Climate #Colonialism #Communism #Community #Diaspora #Disability #Economics #Essays #Europe #Family #Fascism #Feminism #Gay #Gender #GenerationalTrauma #Healthcare #History #Home #Immigration #Intersectionality #Jewish #Lesbian #Liberation #Linguistics #Mentalhealth #MiddleEast #Native #NeoLiberal #Novel #Oppression #Palestine #Patriarchy #Personal #Poetry #Police #Prison #Protest #Queer #Race #Reform #Religion #Revolution #Selfreflection #Slavery #SocialInequality #Solidarity #SouthAmerica #TheState #Trans #UK #USA #War #Women #WorkingClass #Zine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History | Jeremy Black | 1 | A thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for our past but also the present day. In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was first developed in the ancient world, and reaches all the way to present day and the contemporary crimes of trafficking and bonded labour. He shows how slavery has taken many forms throughout history and across the world - from the uprising of Spartacus, the plantations of the Indies, and the murderous forced labour of the gulags and concentration camps. Slavery helped consolidated transoceanic empires and helped mould new world societies such as America and Brazil. In the Atlantic trade, Black also looks at the controversial area of how complicit the African peoples were in the trade. He then charts the long fight for abolition in the 19th century, including both the campaigners as well as the lost voices of the slaves themselves who spoke of their misery. Finally, as Black points out, slavery has not been completely abolished today and coerced labour can be found closer to home than is comfortable. | #Black #Brown #Bodies #Oppression #Slavery #USA #History #Europe #Native #Revolution #Abolition #Liberation | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Ain't I a Woman? | bell hooks | 1 | Cultural critic bell hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by white men, black men, and by white women. Illustrating her analysis with moving personal accounts, Ain’t I a Woman is deeply critical of the racism inherent in the thought of many middle-class white feminists who have failed to address issues of race and class. While acknowledging the conflict of loyalty to race or sex is still a dilemma, hooks challenges the view that race and gender are two separate phenomena, insisting that the struggles to end racism and sexism are inextricably intertwined. | #Class #Feminism #Women #Intersectionality #Black #Native #Bodies #History #Race #oppression | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | All Walls Collapse: Stories of Separation | Edited by Sarah Cleave & Will Forrester | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Always Another Country | Sisonke Msimang | 1 | Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents, talented and highly educated, travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and against a backdrop of racism and xenophobia, Sisonke develops her keenly perceptive view of the world. In this sparkling account of a young girl's path to womanhood, Sisonke interweaves her personal story with her political awakening in America and Africa, her euphoria at returning to the new South Africa, and her disillusionment with the new elites. Confidential and reflective, Always Another Country is a search for belonging and identity: a warm and intimate story, and a testament to sisterhood and family bonds. | #Africa #Biography #Black #Brown #Community #Diaspora #Home #Immigration #Personal #Race #Revolution #Solidarity #War #Women | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Anfita: The Anti-Fascist Handbook | Mark Bray | 1 | In a smart and gripping investigation, historian and activist Mark Bray provides a detailed survey of the full history of anti-fascism from its origins to the present day. Based on interviews with anti-fascists from around the world, Antifa details the tactics of the movement and the philosophy behind it, offering insight into the growing but little-understood resistance fighting back against fascism in all its guises. | #Community #Facism #History #Oppression #Solidarity | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Angry Black Girl | Elexus Jionde | 1 | A collection of 21 essays on race, gender, and America. With titles like “Racist White Women: An American Legacy” and The Black Church: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Elexus takes us through her upbringing, schooling and unlearning her own biases and prejudices he had especially about the black community but specifically black women. Jionde holds nothing back as she explores how nationalism, racism, Christian supremacy, and capitalism have worked to drown out any dissenters—especially marginalized ones There is a long-standing public relationship between Black femininity and anger. The Angry Black Woman trope is infamous and can be spotted over and over again in popular culture. For many decades, this connection has been heavily shamed and has been used to justify the exploitation and silencing of Black women. The face of this mistreatment often falls on Black women, who find themselves burdened with the work of managing any show of frustration in order to keep the people around them comfortable. In Angry Black Girl, a refreshing collection of essays by Elexus Jionde, the connection is clear and undeniable. | #Class #Intersectionality #Feminism #Women #Antifascism #Antiracism #Black #Native #Slavery #Gender #Healthcare #USA #History #Essays #Religion | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Are Prisons Obsolete? | Angela Davis | 1 | A short, impassioned, argument for abolition. Davis eloquently points out that mass incarceration has had little or no effect on crime, how disproportionate numbers of the poor and minorities end up in prison, and the obscene profits the system generates. | #Class #Intersectionality #Feminism #Women #Antiracism #Black #Native #Slavery #Community #Healthcare #USA #Abolition #Economics #History #TheState #Prison #Police #Fascism | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Become Ungovernable | H.L.T Quan | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Being An Ally: Real Talk About Showing Up, Screwing Up, And Trying Again | ed. Shakirah Bourne and Dana Alison Levy | 13 | As an ally you use your power-no matter how big or small-to support others. You learn, and try, and mess up, and try harder. In this collection of true stories, 17 critically acclaimed and bestselling YA authors get real about being an ally, needing an ally, and showing up for friends and strangers. From raw stories of racism and invisible disability to powerful moments of passing the mic, these authors share their truths. They invite you to think about your own experiences and choices and how to be a better ally. | #Essay #Intersectionality #Antiracism #Prison #Police #Disability #Feminism #Solidarity | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Being Jewish Today: Confronting the Real Issues | Tony Bayfield | 1 | Being Jewish Today gives an account of both the journey of a particular British Jew and the journey of millions of women and men through today's perplexing and difficult world. With honesty and integrity Rabbi Tony Bayfield breaks new ground in exploring the meaning of Jewish identity and its relationship to Jewish tradition and belief. He does so from the perspective of a person fully integrated into the modern Western world. The rigorous questions he asks of his Jewishness, Judaism and the Jewish God are therefore substantially the same as those asked by individuals of all faiths and none. | #History #Religion #Jewish #Culture | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Before We Were Trans | Kit Heyam | 1 | Across the world today, people of all ages are doing fascinating, creative, messy things with gender. These people have a rich history - but one that is often left behind by narratives of trans lives that focus on people with stable, binary, uncomplicated gender identities. As a result, these stories tend to be recent, binary, stereotyped, medicalised and white. Before We Were Trans is a new and different story of gender, that seeks not to be comprehensive or definitive, but - by blending culture, feminism. and politics - to widen the scope of what we think of as trans history by telling the stories of people across the globe whose experience of gender has been transgressive, or not characterised by stability or binary categories. Before We Were Trans is a history and celebration of gender in all its fluidity, ambiguity and complexity. Written by local author Kit Heyman. | #Gender #Body #Cultue #Feminism #History #Trans | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness | Da'Shaun L. Harrison | 1 | To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Taking on desirability politics, the limitations of gender, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality, and the incongruity of 'health' and 'healthiness' for the Black fat, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us 'fat is bad,' and destroying the world as we know it, so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation. | #Anti-racism #Race #Black #Bodies #Healthcare #History #Oppression #Politics | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Bending the Bars | John Barker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 1 | The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term “people” to actually mean. For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he’s sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, the mystery of race, an abstract concept that put the safety of him and the people he loved the most, including his son, in constant jeopardy. In his trademark style - a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage - Coates provides readers a thrillingly illuminating new framework for understanding race: its history, our contemporary dilemma, and where we go from here. | #History #Race #Personal #Essay #Black #USA | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Beyond a Boundary | C. L. R. James | 1 | CLR James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding passion and tells us of the players whom he knew and loved, exploring the game’s psychology and aesthetics, and the issues of class, race and politics that surround it. Part memoir of a West Indian boyhood, part passionate celebration and defence of cricket as an art form, part indictment of colonialism, Beyond a Boundary addresses not just a sport but a whole culture and asks the question, ‘What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? | #Class #Biography #Race #Colonialism #Caribbean | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon | 1 | In this collection, a diverse group of authors focuses on concrete and practical forms of redress and accountability, assessing existing practices and marking paths forward. They use a variety of forms--from toolkits to personal essays--to delve deeply into the "how to" of transformative justice, providing alternatives to calling the police, ways to support people having mental health crises, stories of community-based murder investigations, and much more. At the same time, they document the history of this radical movement, creating space for long-time organizers to reflect on victories, struggles, mistakes, and transformations. | #Antifascism #Antiracism #Community #Healthcare #Abolition #Reform #Economics #History #Essays #TheState #Prison #Police #Anarchism #Communism | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Black and British: A Forgotton History | David Olusoga | 1 | In this vital re-examination of a shared history, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan 'blackamoors' and the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It's not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries. | #Black #Disability #Community #Family #History #Immigration | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Black Disabled Ancestors | Leroy F. Moore Jr. | 1 | We say that our ancestors are resting in peace but Leroy F. Moore Jr. argues that our Black disabled ancestors can’t rest in peace because their stories are incomplete and have a lot to teach us today. Black disabled people have ancestors who left knowledge, art, music, culture, politics and a lot of pain for us to pick up, build on, and to tell the harsh truth. Many colorful, harsh and dream like Black disabled ancestor’s stories have been waking Leroy up in the middle of the night. | #Intersectionality #Black #Disability #Community #Family #History #Immigration | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Black Disabled Art History 101 | Leroy F. Moore Jr. | 1 | Black disabled and Deaf artists have always existed. They were on street corners down South singing the Blues, spray painting on New York subways, and bringing sign lan guage to the big screen. Today, young Black disabled artists are finding their own way to the stage and studio, some with a paintbrush in their mouth, like Alana C. Tillman, and some with a drumstick in their hands, like Vita E. Cleveland. As a Black disabled youth in the 1970’s and 1980’s, I wished that there was a book like the one you are holding now. No more wishing - the book is here. | #Black #Disability #History #Arts | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Black folktales | Julius Lester | 1 | Twelve remarkable folktales, culled from the black experience in Africa and America, are freshly retold in the thoroughly original voice of Julius Lester. Arranged by topic – Origins, Love, Heroes, and People – the tales will delight readers of all ages with their universal themes and uncanny wisdom. Though some of these stories have been around for centuries and many were passed down by slaves, Julius Lester’s urban expressiveness and Tom Feelings’s spirited drawings give the m continued resonance for today's audience. | #Africa #USA #Black #Native #History #Community #Antiracism #Slavery | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love | Sonya Renee Taylor | 1 | Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength. As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies. When we act from this truth on a global scale, we usher in the transformative opportunity of radical self-love, which is the opportunity for a more just, equitable, and compassionate world–for us all. | #Black #Body #GenerationalTrauma #Liberation #Personal | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | The Boy Behind the Wall: Poems of Imprisonment and Freedom | Dalton Harrison | 2 | The Boy Behind the Wall is a deeply moving and life-changing book of poetry about the best and worst parts of ourselves - the journey from childhood innocence to the trauma of the teenage years that lead to adulthood and prison. It takes you full circle through these harsh realities, with performance and poetry, and then back onto the long road out again. This book is essential reading for anyone who works with children, families, prisoners or ex-offenders; for academics exploring intersectionality, gender transition from a trans male perspective, or prison life and probation in Britain; and for anyone with lived experience of feeling trapped in a place where they don't belong.This is not trauma tourism: this is one person's journey. One person's truth. But when so many people who have been through the British prison system are now dead, murdered or missing, this is a truth that lives in the shadows of the Office for National Statistics, and in the places that the media fails to highlight. | #Arts #Gender #Intersectionality #Personal #Poetry #Prison #TheState #Trans #UK | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe’s Refugee Crisis | Charlotte McDonald-Gibson | 1 | Charlotte McDonald-Gibson has spent years reporting on every aspect of Europe s refugee crisis, and Cast Away offers a vivid glimpse into the personal dilemmas, pressures, choices and hopes that lie beneath the headlines. Riot police patrol the borders, bodies of drowned children wash up on holiday beaches, a humanitarian disaster unfolds in refugee settlements: this is the European Union today. But how did a bloc that was founded on the values of human rights and dignity for all reach this point? And what was driving more than a million desperate people to risk their lives on the Mediterranean in the hope of finding sanctuary? | #Europe #Community #Immigration #Refugee #HumanRights | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling out Racist Stereotypes | Elijah Lawal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Counterweights | Kestral Gaian | 1 | Travel and stillness. Material objects and abstract creation. Counterweights, the first collected works of Kestral Gaian, is a look into the duality of the world around us: what is, and what could be. With recurrent themes of illness and beauty living side-by-side, Gaian explores the ideas of love being helpless, humanity being destructive, and of change being a constant companion to us all. | #Community #Personal #Poetry #Queer #Trans | Poetry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | 1 | A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decolonization. 'The language of literature', Ngũgĩ writes, 'cannot be discussed meaningfully outside the context of those social forces which have made it both an issue demanding our attention, and a problem calling for a resolution.' First published in 1986, Decolonising the Mind is one of Ngũgĩ's best-known and most-cited non-fiction publications, helping to cement him as a pre-eminent voice theorizing the 'language debate' in postcolonial studies. | #Colonialism #History #Linguistics #Oppression | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Dee Jumbie Dance | Jamal Gerald | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 1 | In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution. Through it all, she works her way through the personal and the political of intersectionality as she comes to identify as a mixed-race person and queer femme of colour, as a disabled person grappling with chronic illness (she has suffered from fibromyalgia since 1998) and as an abuse survivor. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares. | #Queer #Intersectionality #Anarchism #Queer #Disability #Personal #Selfreflection #USA | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Disability Intimacy | Alice Wong | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Discourse on colonialism | Aimé Césaire | 1 | This classic work profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements. Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the coloniser and colonised, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of “progress” and “civilization” upon encountering the “savage,” “uncultured,” or “primitive.” Here, Césaire reaffirms African values, identity, and culture, and their relevance, reminding us that “the relationship between consciousness and reality are extremely complex. . . . It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society.” | #Africa #Black #Capitalism #SouthAmerica #Carribean #Colonialism #Oppression #Liberation #War | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Don't Touch My Hair | Emma Dabiri | 1 | From women’s solidarity and friendship, to forgotten African scholars and the dubious provenance of Kim Kardashian’s braids, the scope of black hairstyling ranges from pop culture to cosmology, from prehistoric times to the (afro)futuristic. Uncovering sophisticated indigenous math ematical systems in black hairstyles, along side styles that served as secret intelligence networks leading enslaved Africans to freedom, Don’t Touch My Hair proves that far from being only hair, black hairstyling culture can be understood as an allegory for black oppression and, ultimately, liberation. | #Black #Bodies #Essays #History #Liberation #Race #Women | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Emergent Strategy | Adrienne Maree Brown | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Emotional Literacy | Ash Brockwell | 1 | In this collection of poems and song lyrics spanning four decades, Ash Brockwell - interdisciplinary academic, artist, and transgender activist - shares his authentic life stories for the first time. They encompass love, loss, reverse culture shock, surviving depression, artistic and eco-spiritual inspiration, and emergence from a repressive religious community into a joyful exploration of queer identity beyond the binary. This book includes Ash's five Songs of the Gathering and an outline of his Songwork process - using music to hold space for the supportive, creative, and life-giving conversations that are so urgently needed at this time of global crisis. | #Gender #Mentalhealth #Personal #Queer #Religion #Selfreflection | Poetry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Experiments In Imaging Otherwise | Lola Olufemi | 1 | This is a book of failure and mistakes; it begins with what is stolen from us and proposes only an invitation to imagine. In these playful written experiments, Lola Olufemi navigates the space between what is and what could be. Weaving together fragmentary reflections in prose and poetry, this is an exploration of the possibility of living differently, grounded in black feminist scholarship and political organising. Olufemi shows that the horizon is not an immaterial state we gesture toward. Instead, propelled by the motion of thinking against and beyond, we must invent the future now and never let go of the otherwise. | #Abolition #Community #Queer #Revolution #Poetry #UK | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades | Peter Hudis | 1 | Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism. His legacy remains with us today, having inspired movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, the US and South Africa. This is a critical biography of his extraordinary life. Peter Hudis draws on the expanse of his life and work - from his upbringing in Martinique and early intellectual influences to his mature efforts to fuse psychoanalysis and philosophy and contributions to the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria - to counter the monolithic assumption that Fanon's contribution to modern thought is defined by the advocacy of violence. He was a political activist who brought his interests in psychology and philosophy directly to bear on such issues as mutual recognition, democratic participation and political sovereignty. Hudis shows that, as a result, Fanon emerges as neither armchair intellectual nor intransigent militant. | #Africa #Biography #Black #Brown #Carribean #Climate #Colonialism #History #Liberation #Oppression #Revolution | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | 2 | The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists.In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation. | #History #Liberation #Oppression #Police #Prison #Race #SocialInequality #TheState #USA | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo | 1 | This is Britain as you’ve never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They’re each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope... | #Black #Community #Home #Oppression #Personal #Race #UK #Women | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists | Julia Ebner | 1 | By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but soon began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare hours – late nights, holidays, weekends – adopting five different identities, and joining a dozen extremist groups from across the ideological spectrum. Her journey takes her from a Generation Identity global strategy meeting in a pub in Mayfair, to a Neo-Nazi Music Festival on the border of Germany and Poland. She would get relationship advice from 'Trad Wives' and Jihadi Brides and hacking lessons from ISIS. She was in the channels when the alt-right began planning the lethal Charlottesville rally, and spent time in the networks that would radicalise the Christchurch terrorist. Ebner takes the reader on a deeply compulsive, terrifying, illuminating journey into the darkest recesses of extremist thinking, exposing how closely we are surrounded by their fanatical ideology every day, the changing nature and practice of these groups, and what is being done to counter them. | #Antifascism #Antiracism #Community #Europe #Fascism #MiddleEast #Personal #Race #USA | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Healing Justice Lineages | Page & Woodland | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain | Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe Foreword by Lola Okolosie | 1 | A powerful document of the day-to-day realities of Black women in Britain, The Heart of the Race is a powerful corrective to a version of Britain’s history from which black women have long been excluded. First published in 1985 and winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize that year, The Heart of the Race is a testimony to the collective experience of black women in Britain, and their relationship to the British state throughout its long history of slavery, empire and colonialism. It reclaims and records black women’s place in that history, documenting their day-to-day struggles, their experiences of education, work and health care, and the personal and political struggles they have waged to preserve a sense of identity and community. | #Black #Colonialism #Healthcare #History #Race #SocialInequality #UK #Women | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Hidden Lives | Kestral Gaian | 1 | Aaron Grayling hates summer. It’s a time of heat and humidity in the dreary town of Meriville. It’s also the time when the bad dreams come, which have been intensifying since the death of his father. He hardly seems to find the space to breathe… Until the fateful day he finds a diary in the woods. Penned by the mysterious X, it hints at a shadowy world of murder that seems too true for the boy to ignore. Torn between school and a murder investigation, Aaron finds himself an unlikely companion in X. Can they stop the crimewave from hitting Meriville before it's too late? And will it help Aaron understand the turbulent goings-on in his head? Hidden Lives is a powerful novel of friendship and loss, and staying true to who you are against the odds. | #Novel #Queer #Liberation | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China | Au Loong-Yu | 1 | Hong Kong is in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens shaking the regime. From the Umbrella Movement in 2014 to the defeat of the Extradition Bill and beyond, the protestors' demands have become more radical, and their actions more drastic. Their bravery emboldened the labor movement and launched the first successful political strike in half a century, followed by the broadening of the democratic movement as a whole. The book sets the new protest movements within the context of the colonization, revolution and modernization of China. Au Loong-Yu explores Hong Kong's unique position in this history and the reaction the protests have generated on the Mainland. The new generation's aspiration goes far beyond the political. It is a generation that strongly associates itself with a Hong Kong identity, with inclusivity and openness. Looking deeper into the roots and intricacies of the movement, the role of 'Western Values' vs 'Communism' and 'Hong Kongness' vs 'Chineseness', the cultural and political battles are understood through a broader geopolitical history. For good or for bad, Hong Kong has become one of the battle fields of the great historic contest between the US, the UK and China. | #Asia #Colonialism #Communism #Police #Protest #Revolution #TheState #UK #USA | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | How To Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind | La Marr Jurelle Bruce | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | I Am Nobody's Nigger | Dean Atta | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | I Was Not Born a Sad Poet | Lorraine Masiya Mponela | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | "I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour | gal-dem | 1 | gal-dem, the award-winning online and print magazine, is created by women and non-binary people of colour. In this life-affirming, moving and joyous collection of fourteen essays, gal-dem’s talented writers use raw material from their teenage years - diaries, poems and chat histories - to give advice to their younger selves and those growing up today. | #Black #Brown #Essays #Feminism #Personal #Poetry #Queer #Race #Selfreflection #Trans #Women | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them | Philippe Legrain | 1 | Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed — or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the death toll in the past decade now exceeds 9/11’s, Philippe Legrain has written the first book about immigration that looks beyond the headlines. Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in the United States, Europe, and Australia? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying? | #Antiracism #Black #Brown #Class #History #Home #Immigration #Liberation #Native #Oppression | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Journal of an Ordinary Grief | Mahmoud Darwish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | The Kurdish Womens Movement: History, Theory, Practice | Dilar Dirik | 1 | The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle, most recently in the fight against ISIS, Rojava embodies a radical commitment to ecology, democracy and women's liberation. But while striking images of Kurdish women in military fatigues proliferate, a true understanding of the women's movement remains elusive. Taking apart the superficial and Orientalist frameworks that dominate, Dilar Dirik offers instead an empirically rich account of the women's movement in Kurdistan. Drawing on original research and ethnographic fieldwork, she surveys the movement's historical origins, ideological evolution, and political practice over the past forty years. Going beyond abstract ideas, Dirik locates the movement's culture and ideology in its concrete work for women's revolution in the here and now. Taking the reader from the guerrilla camps in the mountains to radical women's academies and self-organized refugee camps, readers around the world can engage with the revolution in Kurdistan, both theoretically and practically, as a vital touchstone in the wider struggle for a militant anti-fascist, anti-capitalist feminist internationalism. | #Anarchism #Antifascism #Arab #Brown #Climate #Colonialism #Community #Fascism #Feminism #Intersectionality #Liberation #MiddleEast #Oppression #Patriarchy #Religion #Revolution #War #Women | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture | Ed Morales | 1 | “Latinx” is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States—17 percent of the country, more than 58 million Americans. Foreign and native-born, and a sizable part of the country’s working class, their political empowerment is making changes in a growing number of states. Yet Latinx barely figure in America’s conversation about race and ethnicity. The U.S. census doesn’t even have a racial category for “Latino.” Ed Morales, a lecturer in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”— a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America’s black– white racial regime | #AntiRacism #Black #Brown #Diaspora #Community #Culture #History #Latin #Race #US | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Life and Fate | Vasily Grossman | 1 | Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman’s characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated bythe KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece. | #Communism #Europe #Fascism #Immigration #Oppression #Police #TheState #War | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | The Lonely Londoners | Sam Selvon | 1 | At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes. In this strange, cold and foggy city where the natives can be less than friendly at the sight of a black face, has Galahad met his Waterloo? But the irrepressible newcomer cannot be cast down. He and all the other lonely new Londoners - from shiftless Cap to Tolroy, whose family has descended on him from Jamaica - must try to create a new life for themselves. As pessimistic 'old veteran' Moses watches their attempts, they gradually learn to survive and come to love the heady excitements of London. | #History #Immigration #Novel #Race #WorkingClass #UK | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal | Layla Saad | 1 | Me and White Supremacy shows readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of colour, and inturn, help other white people do better, too. When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #MeAndWhiteSupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviours, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated, and over 90,000 people downloaded the book. Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. The numbers show that readers are ready to do this work - let’s give it to them. | #Antiracism #Black #Brown #Community #Native #Selfreflection | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Practical Meditation: A Simple Step-By-Step Guide | Giovanni Dienstmann | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff | 1 | A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair. For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was ‘the Mother Country’. They made the long journey across the sea, expecting to find a place where they would be be welcomed with open arms; a land in which you were free to build a new life, eight thousand miles away from home. This remarkable book explores the reality of their experiences, and those of their children and grandchildren, through 22 unique real-life stories spanning more than 70 years | #Black #Carribean #Colonialism #Healthcare #History #Immigration #Race #UK #WorkingClass | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies | Resmaa Menakem | 2 | The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking, inspiring work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of discrimination, from the perspective of body-centred psychology. He argues that until we learn to heal and overcome the generational anguish of white supremacy, we will all continue to bear its scars. My Grandmother's Hands is an extraordinary call to action for all of us to recognize that racism affects not only the mind, but also the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our racial divides. | #Antiracism #Black #Bodies #History #Race #Reform #Selfreflection | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Naked Nutrition | Daniel O'Shaughnessy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men | Dana D. Nelson | 1 | Historically broad and theoretically informed, National Manhood reaches across disciplines to engage those studying early national culture, race and gender issues, and American history, literature, and culture. National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and political articulation of a civic identity centered around the white male and points to a cultural moment in which the theoretical consolidation of white manhood worked to ground, and perhaps even found, the nation. Using political, scientific, medical, personal, and literary texts ranging from the Federalist papers to the ethnographic work associated with the Lewis and Clark expedition to the medical lectures of early gynecologists, Nelson explores the referential power of white manhood, how and under what conditions it came to stand for the nation, and how it came to be a fraternal articulation of a representative and civic identity in the United States. I | #Gender #History #Oppression #Race #Slavery #USA | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | No Logo | Naomi Klein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Now I Sing | Lorraine Masiya Mponela | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | No Time For Silence: Words of Survival, Resilience, and Hope | Ed. Ash Brockwell | 1 | We had dysphoria. We had cyberbullies. We had transphobic attacks. We had discrimination, negative media coverage, and multi-year waiting lists for medical care - or, in some cases, no medical care at all. Wasn't there something else? Ah, yes - a global pandemic... But we're back, celebrating our refusal to be erased... with an even bigger and more diverse anthology of poems, song lyrics and life stories by transgender and non-binary writers! No Time for Silence: Words of Survival, Resilience and Hope, the second anthology in the TransVerse series, brings together 55 amazing writers from four continents - Africa, Australasia, Europe and North America. We hope that in these pages you'll find inspiration, whatever your gender; solidarity, if you're trans and/or non-binary; and a deeper insight into the courage and creativity of our global TransVerse family. | #Community #Gender #Personal #Poetry #Queer #UK #USA | Poetry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Ordinary People | Diana Evans | 1 | Set against the backdrop of Barack Obama’s historic election victory, Ordinary People is an intimate, immersive study of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, friendship and aging, and the fragile architecture of love. With its distinctive prose and irresistible soundtrack, it is the story of our lives, and those moments that threaten to unravel us. South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a narrow Victorian terrace, she begins to disappear. Michael, growing daily more accustomed to his commute, still loves Melissa but can’t quite get close enough to her to stay faithful. Meanwhile out in the suburbs, Stephanie is happy with Damian and their three children, but the death of Damian’s father has thrown him into crisis – or is it something, or someone, else? Are they all just in the wrong place? Are any of them prepared to take the leap? | #Black #Bodies #Diaspora #Family #Home #Women | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Our History Has Always Been Contraband | Edited by Kaepernick, Kelley, and Taylor | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | A Philosophy of Shame | Frédéric Gros | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Pleasure Activism | Adrienne Maree Brown | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Precarious Liufe | Judith Butler | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney | Okechukwu Nzelu | 1 | The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney is a comic novel about Nnenna, a half-Nigerian teenager living in modern-day Manchester with her mother Joanie. As Nnenna approaches womanhood she starts trying to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture. Her once close and tender relationship with her mother becomes strained as she asks probing questions about her father who she's never met and whom her mother who refuses to discuss. Each chapter begins with a biblical quote which harks back to the beginning of Maurice and Joanie's relationship - meeting in a church group in a café in Cambridge - but is really Nnenna's diary headings which she is trying to hide from her mother's prying eyes. Nnenna is asking big questions of how to 'be' when she doesn't know who she is as Joanie wonders how to truly love when she has never been loved. | #Africa #Biography #Black #Colonialism #Family #Immigration #Novel #Personal #UK | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Queenie | Candice Carty-Williams | 2 | Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her. | #Antiracism #Black #Carribbean #Community #Diaspora #Fiction #Home #Literature #Race #Women | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Queer palestine and the empire of critique | Sa'ed Atshan | 1 | From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians, even as they fight patriarchy and imperialism, are themselves subjected to an "empire of critique" from Israeli and Palestinian institutions, Western academics, journalists and filmmakers, and even fellow activists. Such global criticism has limited growth and led to an emphasis within the movement on anti-imperialism over the struggle against homophobia. Sa'ed Atshan asks how transnational progressive social movements can balance struggles for liberation along more than one axis. He explores critical junctures in the history of Palestinian LGBTQ activism, revealing the queer Palestinian spirit of agency, defiance, and creativity, in the face of daunting pressures and forces working to constrict it. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique explores the necessity of connecting the struggles for Palestinian freedom with the struggle against homophobia. | #Arab #Bi #Brown #Feminism #Gay #Gender #Intersectionality #Lesbian #Liberation #MiddleEast #Oppression #Palestine #Queer #War #Women | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Queer Power! : Icons, Activists & Game Changers from Across the Rainbow | Dom & Ink | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Race Ethnicity And Difference: Imagining The Inclusive Society: Imagining the Inclusive | Peter Ratcliffe | 1 | This distinctive new text blends discussion of race, ethnicity, and difference with debates on social exclusion and inclusion. Peter Ratcliffe addresses the major problems societies face around the world, including the nature and roots of social inequalities and tensions between different groups based on race, ethnicity, culture, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, and class. Accessible and topical, this book is suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, social policy, politics, and social welfare. | #Class #Gender #Race #Religion #SocialInequality | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Resistance Behind Bars: the Struggles of Incarcerated Women | Victoria Law | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities | Ching-in Chen | 1 | The Revolution Starts at Home offers life-saving alternatives for survivors, while building a movement where no one is left behind. This watershed collection breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the "secret" of intimate violence within social justice circles. Just as importantly, it provides practical strategies for dealing with abuse and creating safety without relying on the coercive power of the state. | #Abolition #Community #Feminism #Home #Liberation #Oppression #Solidarity #TheState #Women | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All | Carolyn Gerin, Elisa Camahort, and Jamia Wilson | 1 | Are you ready to take action and make your voice heard, but don’t know how to go about it? This hands-on, hit-the-ground-running guide delivers lessons on practical tactics for navigating and protecting one’s personal democracy in a gridlocked, heavily surveilled, and politically volatile country. If you want to start making a difference but don’t know what to do next, Road Map for Revolutionaries provides the resources needed to help you feel safer, more empowered, invested in, and intrinsic to the American experiment. The book addresses timely topics such as staying safe at protests, supporting marginalized.communities, online privacy, and how to keep up the fight for the long term, breaking down key issues and outlining action steps for local, state, and federal levels of government. | #Capitalism #Liberation #Oppression #Protest #Race #Revolution #USA | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies | Heba Hayek | 1 | Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies is written for those who had to leave—collected remembrances of a childhood in Gaza by a woman far from Palestine’s sun and sea. Overindulgent, chaotic and sentimental, Heba Hayek’s narrator struggles to navigate life in colder, unfamiliar worlds. She holds tightly to memories of home, hoping they will lead back to her sisters and mothers. With brilliance and grace, Hayek’s vignettes explore the methods of survival nurtured by Palestinian women in the face of colonial occupation and patriarchy—the power of community care, and of loving what’s not meant to be loved. Her reflections reveal the intimate magnificence and quiet devastation of everyday life: a family drive on the shore, waxing for the first time with aunties, or peeling figs while waiting at a checkpoint. | #Colonialism #Community #Immigration #Middleeast #Palestine #Patriarchy | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | See You Soon | Mariame Kaba and Bianca Diaz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging | Tessa McWatt | 2 | Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, Shame on Me is a personal and powerful exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story. Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and "black bitch," and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body--nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones and blood--which holds up a mirror to the way culture reads all bodies, she asks why we persist in thinking in terms of race today when racism is killing us. Her grandmother's family fled southern China for British Guiana after her great uncle was shot in his own dentist's chair during the First Sino-Japanese War. McWatt is made of this woman and more: those who arrived in British Guiana from India as indentured labour and those who were brought from Africa as cargo to work on the sugar plantations; colonists and those whom colonialism displaced. How do you tick a box on a census form or job application when your ancestry is Scottish, English, French, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, African and Chinese? How do you finally answer a question first posed to you in grade school: "What are you?" And where do you find a sense of belonging in a supposedly "post-racial" world where shadism, fear of blackness, identity politics and call-out culture vie with each other noisily, relentlessly and still lethally? | #Antiracism #Black #Brown #Carribbean #Community #Diaspora #Family #Fiction #Home #Literature #Race #Women | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | The Sociology of Human Rights | Mark Frezzo | 1 | This is high-level literary fiction dressed up as a pacy and gripping thriller laced with great humour and eroticism that is never gratuitous. Veronica is a successful young Buenos Aires journalist, unattached, gutsy and raunchy. She is a fascinating and complicated heroine, driven by a sense of justice but also by lust and ambition. Olguin’s story is informed by social criticism and is a subversive attack on corruption and the abuse of the vulnerable in society. | #Brown #Carribean #Class #Community #Novel #SocialInequality #Solidarity #SouthAmerica | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo | Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement, offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans. Her messages are passionate but finely tuned, and crystalize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. | #Black #GenerationalTrauma #Intersectionality #Oppression #Police #Race #USA | Non-Fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Spirituality and Abolition | Ashon Crawley and Roberto Sirvent | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | The Stars and The Blackness Between Them | Junauda Petrus | 1 | Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both. Port of Spain, Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just found out she's going to be sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's daughter. Audre's grandmother Queenie (a former dancer who drives a white convertible Cadillac and who has a few secrets of her own) tries to reassure her granddaughter that she won't lose her roots, not even in some place called Minneapolis. "America have dey spirits too, believe me," she tells Audre. Minneapolis, USA. Sixteen-year-old Mabel is lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling and trying to figure out why she feels the way she feels--about her ex Terrell, about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods, and about the vague feeling of illness that's plagued her all summer. Mabel's reverie is cut short when her father announces that his best friend and his just-arrived-from-Trinidad daughter are coming for dinner. Mabel quickly falls hard for Audre and is determined to take care of her as she tries to navigate an American high school. But their romance takes a turn when test results reveal exactly why Mabel has been feeling low-key sick all summer and suddenly it's Audre who is caring for Mabel as she faces a deeply uncertain future. | #Bi #Black #Gay #Lesbian #Queer #USA | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | The Stone House | Yara Hawari | 1 | The year is 1968. The recent Arab defeat in the Naksa has led to the loss of all of historic Palestine. In the midst of violent political upheaval, Mahmoud, a young Palestinian boy living in the Galilee, embarks on a school trip to visit the West Bank for the first time. For Mahmoud, his mother and his grandmother, the journey sets off a flood of memories, tracing moments that bond three generations together. How do these personal experiences become collective history? Why do some feel guilty for surviving war? Is it strange to long for a time never lived? Yara Hawari harnesses the enduring power of memory in defiance of the constrictions on Palestinian life. Against a system bent on the erasure of their people, the family’s perseverance is unbroken in the decades-long struggle for their stone house. | #Antiracism #Arab #Colonialism #Community #Generationaltrauma #Oppression #Palestine | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | The Story of the Windrush | K. N. Chimbiri | 1 | The story before the scandal. A book to celebrate the inspiring legacy of the Windrush pioneers. In June 1948, hundreds of Caribbean men, women and children arrived in London on a ship called the HMT Empire Windrush. Although there were already Black people living in Britain at the time, this event marks the beginning of modern Black Britain. Combining historical fact with voices from the Windrush Generation, this book sensitively tells the inspiring story of the Windrush Generation pioneers for younger readers. | #Black #Caribbean #History #UK | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Superior: The Return of Race Science | Angela Saini | 1 | Where did the idea of race come from, and what does it mean? In an age of identity politics, DNA ancestry testing and the rise of the far-right, a belief in biological differences between populations is experiencing a resurgence. The truth is: race is a social construct. Our problem is we find this hard to believe. In Superior, award-winning author Angela Saini investigates the concept of race, from its origins to the present day. Engaging with geneticists, anthropologists, historians and social scientists from across the globe, Superior is a rigorous, much needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of the belief that race is real, and that some groups of people are superior to others. | #Antiracism #Fascism #History #SocialInequality #Race | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change | Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi | 1 | Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you read this and feel empowered, comforted and validated in every emotion you experience, or decision that you make. For everyone else, we can only hope that reading this helps you to be a better friend, parent, sibling or teacher to black girls living through what we did. It's time we stepped away from seeing this as a problem that black people are charged with solving on their own. It's a collective effort. And everyone has a role to play. | #Antiracism #Black #Gender #Community #Family #Feminism #Gender #Women | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Tell Me I'm Worthless | Alison Rumfitt | 1 | A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary gothic, up through Brighton’s queer scene, and out into the heart of modern day trans experience in the UK. Cutting, disruptive, and darkly funny, Tell Me I’m Worthless is a vital work of trans fiction examines the devastating effects of trauma and the way fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other. Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, things have not been going well. Alice is living a haunted existence, selling videos of herself cleaning for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. She hasn’t spoken to Ila since they went into the House. She hasn’t seen Hannah either. Memories of that night torment her mind and her flesh, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, past the KEEP OUT sign, over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, she knows she must go. Together Alice and Ila must face the horrifying occurrences that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, who the House has chosen to make its own. | #Fascism #Mentalhealth #Novel #Queer #Race #TheState #Trans #UK | Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Anti-Semitic: An anti-racist analysis of Left antisemitism | Steve Cohen | 1 | Steve Cohen's book "That's Funny, You Don't Look Anti-Semitic", looks at the history of Left antisemitism from a Marxist perspective. Written in 1984, it still resonates today. The issue of antisemitism in Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party only increase its relevance and makes it a "must read" book. | #AntiRacism #AntiSemitism #History #Labour #Politics #UK | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different | Edited by Maisie Lawrence and Rishi Dastidar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Trans*(verse): We Won't Be Erased! | Ed. Ash Brockwell | 1 | ‘TransVerse: We Won’t Be Erased!’ is an anthology of poetry and song lyrics by 26 transgender and non-binary writers living in the United Kingdom, Kenya and the United States. Sick of media misrepresentation and attempts to erase us from public life in both the UK and the USA, we’re speaking up in our own words now. From established singers and spoken word artists to teenagers writing their first poems, and from traditional rhyme patterns to free verse, this book showcases the diversity, creativity and resilience of the trans community. We share our experiences of living our truth, coping with dysphoria and body changes, facing transphobia from the media or our families, battling anxiety and depression… and sometimes discovering that ‘on the other side of darkness there’s a dawn where hope begins / on the other side of hatred there’s a Love that always wins’. There’s even a whole chapter that has nothing to do with transitioning at all, because we aren’t defined by our gender, any more than you are. | #Community #Gender #Personal #Poetry #Queer #UK #USA | Poetry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Turning The Page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Twenty-Eight | Kestral Gaian | 1 | In May 1988, a law was passed that made 'promotion' of LGBTQI+ identities illegal across the United Kingdom. It was not repealed until the early 2000s. For fifteen years, young queer people in the UK grew up in the shadow of this oppressive law. Students of the 80s, 90s, and early 00s are still feeling the impact of the original "don't say gay" law to this day. At a time where new laws prohibiting the support of young LGBTQI+ people are appearing across the world, we need to hear from the people impacted by Section 28 now more than ever. These are their stories. | #Bi #Feminism #Gay #Lesbian #Liberation #Oppression #Queer #UK | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Understanding Power | Noam Chomsky | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Utopia | Thomas More | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Venezuela Reframed | Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrandez | 1 | A powerful exploration of the challenges that indigenous autonomy poses for democracy and socialism in Venezuela and beyond, Venezuela Reframed is essential for anyone grappling with the state of Latin American politics and its potential futures. Venezuela Reframed unearths the hidden background of the “indigenous capitalisms” that are being promoted today within Venezuela. Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández illuminates the ways in which indigenous activism, aligned with Venezuela’s Bolivarian governments, has paved the way for development and modernization along classical, social-democratic lines, and how romanticized notions of cultural indigeneity have been used by developers to mask their intentions to ultimately hide signs of a growing class struggle. | #Class #Community #Indigenous #Latin #Socialism #USA | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | VIRAL: The Fight Against AIDS in America | Ann Bausum | 1 | Thirty-five years ago, it was a modern-day, mysterious plague. Its earliest victims were mostly gay men, some of the most marginalised people in the country; at its peak in America, it killed tens of thousands of people. The losses were staggering, the science frightening, and the government’s inaction unforgivable. The AIDS Crisis fundamentally changed the fabric of the United States. Viral presents the history of the AIDS crisis through the lens of the brave victims and activists who demanded action and literally fought for their lives. This compassionate but unflinching text explores everything from the disease’s origins and how it spread to the activism it inspired and how the world confronts HIV and AIDS today. | #Bi #Gay #Healthcare #History #Lesbian #Queer #Trans #USA | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Voices That Shake!: An Anthology of Creative Movements | Sai Murray, Farzana Khan, Tiff Webster and Rose Ziaei | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine | Diana Allan (Editor) | 1 | During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ‘disaster’ or ‘catastrophe’ - lays bare the violence of the ongoing Palestinian plight. Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, documenting a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle East through the voices of the people who lived through it. The interviews, with commentary from leading scholars of Palestine and the Middle East, offer a vivid journey into the history, politics and culture of Palestine, defining Palestinian popular memory on its own terms in all its plurality and complexity. | #Arab #Brown #Colonialism #GenerationalTrauma #Mentalhealth #MiddleEast #Oppression #Palestine #Personal #War | Non-Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Waiting for the Barbarians | J. M. Coetzee | 1 | For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state. J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency. | #Colonialism #Oppression #Revolution #TheState #War | Fiction |