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The Black Archives: All Power To the People! Reading List

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1

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

6,427 members

87 reviews

3.8

6 Members: hipdeep, TheLOFT, ahef1963, TheBlackArchives, ManWithAnAgenda, Nonconformisto

2

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

23,471 members

464 reviews

3.8

7 Members: hipdeep, charl08, TheLOFT, ahef1963, TheBlackArchives, ManWithAnAgenda, Nonconformisto

3

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

6,206 members

165 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, TheBlackArchives, ManWithAnAgenda, Nonconformisto

4

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

by Langston Hughes

1,556 members

13 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963, TheBlackArchives, Nonconformisto

5

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

22,707 members

371 reviews

4.1

4 Members: charl08, ahef1963, TheBlackArchives, ManWithAnAgenda

6

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

by Waldo Heilbron

4 members

3 Members: charl08, TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

7

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

9,919 members

402 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, charl08, TheLOFT, TheBlackArchives

8

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

by Michelle Alexander

6,947 members

152 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, charl08, TheLOFT, TheBlackArchives

9

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

6,270 members

74 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, TheBlackArchives, ManWithAnAgenda

10

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

by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

1,212 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: hipdeep, TheLOFT, TheBlackArchives

11

Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism by Kilomba, Grada (2008) Perfect Paperback

1 member

3 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm, ina.nanai

12

by Eldridge Cleaver

1,925 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: hipdeep, TheBlackArchives, Nonconformisto

13

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

1,554 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: charl08, ahef1963, TheBlackArchives

14

I Write What I Like: Selected Writings

440 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: charl08, TheBlackArchives

15

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

by Reni Eddo-Lodge

2,254 members

62 reviews

4.2

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

16

Black Skin, White Masks

by Frantz Fanon

3,013 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: charl08, TheBlackArchives

17

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

by Cedric J. Robinson

553 members

1 review

½ 4.6

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, D_eve

18

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

by C. L. R. James

1,794 members

24 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: charl08, TheBlackArchives

19

Assata: An Autobiography

by Assata Shakur

1,746 members

24 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: TheLOFT, TheBlackArchives

20

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

by Walter Rodney

1,298 members

13 reviews

4.1

2 Members: charl08, TheBlackArchives

21

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

3,361 members

34 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: TheLOFT, TheBlackArchives

22

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

5,634 members

72 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, TheBlackArchives

23

Neo-Colonialism : The Last Stage of Imperialism

by Kwame Nkrumah

183 members

1 review

4.2

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

24

Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939

26 members

1 review

4

2 Members: charl08, TheBlackArchives

25

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

by Kwame Nimako

20 members

1

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

26

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

by James Baldwin

952 members

9 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, TheBlackArchives

27

The Poetry of Maya Angelou

by Maya Angelou

118 members

1 review

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, TheBlackArchives

28

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

by Ramón Grosfoguel

12 members

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

29

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

by Lewis R. Gordon

51 members

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

30

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

by Edited by Philomena Essed and Isabel Hoving

12 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

31

Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals

by Anthony Bogues

19 members

1 review

½ 4.5

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

32

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

605 members

1 review

½ 3.6

2 Members: charl08, TheBlackArchives

33

We slaves of Suriname

by Anton de Kom

131 members

2 reviews

3.8

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

34

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

by Patricia Hill Collins

1,019 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, TheBlackArchives

35

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

by Mumia Abu-Jamal

40 members

5

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

36

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

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

672 members

3 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, TheBlackArchives

37

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

by Margaret Stevens

28 members

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

38

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

by Joy Degruy Leary

412 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: TheBlackArchives, arwa-fm

39

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

497 members

7 reviews

4

2 Members: charl08, TheBlackArchives

40

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

by Marcus Garvey

210 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: TheBlackArchives

41

70 members

4

Member: TheBlackArchives

42

Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

by Firoze Manji

27 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

43

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America

by Stokely Carmichael

683 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: TheBlackArchives

44

Decolonizing the mind

4 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

45

White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race

by Gloria Wekker

107 members

4

Member: TheBlackArchives

46

Zwart: Afro-Europese literatuur uit de Lage Landen

by Ebissé Rouw

17 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: TheBlackArchives

47

Koewatra djodjo = In de geest van mijn kultuur

3 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

48

De Uitbuiting van Suriname

7 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

49

vereniging ons suriname 70 18 januari 1919 18 januari 1989

1 member

Member: TheBlackArchives

50

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

by Waldo Heilbron

6 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

51

Gids slavernijverleden Amsterdam: slavery heritage guide

by Dienke Hondius

34 members

½ 4.5

Member: TheBlackArchives

52

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

1,524 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: TheBlackArchives

53

Eldridge Cleaver: Post-Prison Writings and Speeches

by Eldridge Cleaver

198 members

3.9

Member: TheBlackArchives

54

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

by Stokely Carmichael

218 members

4.8

Member: TheBlackArchives

55

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

by Elaine Brown

506 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: TheBlackArchives

56

But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies

by Gloria T. Hull

401 members

2 reviews

4

Member: TheBlackArchives

57

by Brian Elstak

9 members

1 review

3.1

Member: TheBlackArchives

58

Black is beautiful : Rubens tot Dumas

by Elmer Kolfin

5 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

59

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

359 members

1 review

4.2

Member: TheBlackArchives

60

We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party

by Mumia Abu-Jamal

171 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: TheBlackArchives

61

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas

by Emory Douglas

140 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: TheBlackArchives

62

Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87

by Thomas Sankara

157 members

1 review

4.8

Member: TheBlackArchives

63

Discourse on Colonialism

by Aimé Césaire

1,150 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: TheBlackArchives

64

Women, Race, and Class

by Angela Y. Davis

2,789 members

26 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: TheBlackArchives

65

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

1,516 members

29 reviews

4.2

Member: TheBlackArchives

66

De koningin van Paramaribo

by Clark Accord

74 members

½ 3.5

Member: TheBlackArchives

67

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

by Anthony Bogues

16 members

1 review

Member: TheBlackArchives

68

No Humans Involved

by Sylvia Wynter

14 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

69

Plantation Memories

by Grada Kilomba

132 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: TheBlackArchives

70

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

580 members

5 reviews

½ 4.6

Member: TheBlackArchives

71

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

by Nico et al. Wijnen

Member: TheBlackArchives

72

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

by Maria Gertrudis van Enckevort

1 member

Member: TheBlackArchives

73

Hallo witte mensen

by Anousha Nzume

39 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: TheBlackArchives

74

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

by Brittney C. Cooper

737 members

21 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: TheBlackArchives

75

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

by Richard B. Moore

18 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

76

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

by Michael O. West

20 members

Member: TheBlackArchives

77

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

by Russell Simmons

105 members

4

Member: TheBlackArchives

78

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

Member: TheBlackArchives

79

They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America

by Ivan Van Sertima

528 members

5 reviews

4

Member: TheBlackArchives,

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