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1

Dutch Racism (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race)

by Edited by Philomena Essed and Isabel Hoving

7 members

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2

Africa for Africans; Or, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

by Marcus Garvey

174 members

4 reviews

½ 4.7

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3

I Write What I Like: Selected Writings

360 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

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4

47 members

4

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5

Black Skin, White Masks

by Frantz Fanon

2,286 members

14 reviews

4.1

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6

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,219 members

78 reviews

3.8

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7

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

by Reni Eddo-Lodge

1,587 members

48 reviews

½ 4.3

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8

The Black Jacobins

by C. L. R. James

1,301 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

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9

Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

by Manji Firoze

16 members

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10

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America

by Stokely Carmichael

546 members

4 reviews

4

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11

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

by Walter Rodney

792 members

8 reviews

4.1

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12

Decolonizing the Mind. Een fundamentele kritiek op het wetenschappelijk kolonialisme

4 members

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13

White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race

by Gloria Wekker

68 members

4

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14

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

4,708 members

62 reviews

½ 4.3

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15

Zwart : Afro-Europese literatuur uit de Lage Landen

by Ebissé Rouw

8 members

3

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16

Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939 (Harriet Tubman)

16 members

1 review

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17

Colonial Transformation and the Decomposition of Dutch Plantation Slavery in Surinam (Caribbean Cultural Studies)

by Waldo Heilbron

3 members

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18

Koewatra djodjo = In de geest van mijn kultuur

3 members

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19

De Uitbuiting van Suriname

7 members

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20

vereniging ons suriname 70 18 januari 1919 18 januari 1989

1 member

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21

De toekomst van het verleden : reflecties over Nederland's slavernijverleden en -erfgoed

by Waldo Heilbron

5 members

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22

Gids slavernijverleden Amsterdam: slavery heritage guide

by Dienke Hondius

20 members

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23

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

1,252 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

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24

Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches

by Eldridge Cleaver

169 members

3.8

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25

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

by Stokely Carmichael

172 members

4.8

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26

by Eldridge Cleaver

1,632 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

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27

Assata: An Autobiography

by Assata Shakur

1,206 members

19 reviews

½ 4.4

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28

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

by Elaine Brown

395 members

4 reviews

3.9

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29

But Some of Us Are Brave

by Gloria T. Hull

347 members

1 review

4

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30

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

2,442 members

27 reviews

½ 4.4

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31

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

7,322 members

351 reviews

½ 4.4

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32

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

5,073 members

137 reviews

½ 4.4

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33

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

4,978 members

66 reviews

4.2

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34

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

by James Baldwin

757 members

6 reviews

4.2

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35

by Brian Elstak

7 members

2 reviews

3.1

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36

Black is beautiful Rubens tot Dumas

by Elmer Kolfin

5 members

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37

Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton

297 members

1 review

4.1

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38

We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party

by Mumia Abu-Jamal

141 members

2 reviews

4.2

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39

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas

by Emory Douglas

119 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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40

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

1,202 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

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41

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

513 members

1 review

½ 3.6

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42

Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87

by Thomas Sankara

94 members

1 review

4.8

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43

Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

by Kwame Nkrumah

99 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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44

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

4,542 members

124 reviews

½ 4.3

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45

Discourse on Colonialism

by Aimé Césaire

766 members

6 reviews

4.2

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46

Women, Race, and Class

by Angela Y. Davis

1,929 members

18 reviews

½ 4.4

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47

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

998 members

24 reviews

4.2

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48

De koningin van Paramaribo

by Clark Accord

67 members

½ 3.5

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49

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

by Cedric J. Robinson

348 members

1 review

4.8

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50

The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation (Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons)

by Kwame Nimako

13 members

1

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51

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

1,307 members

13 reviews

4.2

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52

Caribbean Reasonings: After Man, Towards the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter

by Anthony Bogues

9 members

1 review

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53

No Humans Involved

by Sylvia Wynter

10 members

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54

The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century: Global Processes, Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge

by Ramón Grosfoguel

9 members

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55

What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

by Lewis R. Gordon

34 members

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56

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

19,945 members

423 reviews

3.8

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57

Memorias da Plantacao - Episodios de Racismo Cotidiano (Em Portugues do Brasil)

by Grada Kilomba

80 members

1 review

½ 3.5

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58

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

437 members

3 reviews

4.1

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59

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

441 members

4 reviews

½ 4.5

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60

Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals

by Anthony Bogues

14 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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61

We slaves of Suriname

by Anton de Kom

80 members

1 review

½ 3.5

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62

A. DE KOM. ZIJN STRIJD EN IDEEËN. Samengesteld door het Anton de Kom-Abraham Behr Instituut

by Nico et al. Wijnen

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63

The Life and Work of Otto Huiswoud: Professional Revolutionary and Internationalist (1893-1961)

by Maria Gertrudis van Enckevort

1 member

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64

Hallo witte mensen

by Anousha Nzume

25 members

1 review

½ 3.4

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65

Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media)

by Mumia Abu-Jamal

34 members

5

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66

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

by Patricia Hill Collins

852 members

1 review

½ 4.3

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67

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

by Brittney C. Cooper

542 members

17 reviews

½ 4.3

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68

Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico, and the West Indies, 1919-1939

by Margaret Stevens

16 members

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69

Richard B. Moore, Caribbean militant in Harlem : collected writings, 1920-1972

by Richard B. Moore

16 members

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70

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

19,005 members

333 reviews

4.1

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71

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

368 members

5 reviews

4

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72

The Poetry of Maya Angelou

by Maya Angelou

133 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

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73

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

by Joy Degruy Leary

299 members

6 reviews

4

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74

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

892 members

32 reviews

½ 4.3

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75

From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution

by Michael O. West

11 members

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76

Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success

by Russell Simmons

94 members

4

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77

Smash the Pillars: Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom (Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences)

by Melissa F. Weiner

1 member

1 review

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78

They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America

by Ivan Van Sertima

431 members

5 reviews

4

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