Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
10 best books like Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Cedric J. Robinson): Tar Baby, Black Skin, White Masks, The Wretched of the Earth, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 1400033446 |
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes...
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802150845 |
Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak.
“The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike...
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
| Author | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| ISBN | 0684856573 |
A truly extraordinary work. Beautifully written, cogently and convincingly argued. Passionate and powerful and vital. Read it.
"Some Americans think and say that the nation freed the black slave and gave him a vote and that, unable to use it intelligently, he lost it. That is not so. To win...
Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class
| Author | Robin D.G. Kelley |
| ISBN | 0684826399 |
A great book, desperately needed in academia and left circles to articulate the obvious -- not all culture, resistance and politicisation comes out of work or worker's movements. It also emerges from the home, the community, daily life and its myriads of experiences. I also loved not so much the idea...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
| Author | Robin D.G. Kelley |
| ISBN | 0807009776 |
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of...
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
| Author | Michael Omi |
| ISBN | 0415908647 |
First published in 1986, Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity.
This second edition builds upon and updates Omi and Winant's groundbreaking research. In addition to a preface to the new edition, the book provides a more detailed...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
| Author | Christina Sharpe |
| ISBN | 0822362945 |
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead,...
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
| Author | Simone Browne |
| ISBN | 0822359197 |
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing...
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
| Author | Ruth Wilson Gilmore |
| ISBN | 0520242017 |
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called “the biggest prison building project in the history of the world.” Golden...
