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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
- 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
- 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
Black 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!
- 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
Imperialism & Neocolonialism
- 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”
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
- Darlene Clark: Black Studies Manifesto
- W.E.B Dubois: Criteria of Black Art
- Ida B. Wells: Lynch Law
- James Baldwin: On Being White and Other Lies
- James Baldwin Speech from 1965 Debate
- James Baldwin: The American Dream and the American Negro
- Hazel Carby: The Souls of Black Men
- Ta Nehisi Coates: The Case for Reparations
- Stuart Hall: Cultural Identity and the Diaspora
- Franz Fanon: The Fact of Blackness
- Negritude
- Walter Rodney: The Groundings with My Brothers
- Deva Woodley: The Politics of Healing in the Black Lives Movement
- Charlene Carruthers: Unapologetic
- Adrienne Maree Brown: Emergent Strategy
- Audre Lorde: The Use of the Erotic as Power
Gender & Sexuality
- 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/
- 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
Novels
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)
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