An analysis of white supremacy vs the black struggle an…
The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
The Nation on No Map examines state power, abolition, a…
Race Science, Slavery, And The Unreality Of White Supremacy
The unreality that justifies white supremacy has shape shifted
The Root – Black News, Opinions, Politics and Culture
American Babylon
A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and th…
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a moti…
Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition by Cedric J Robinson | East Bay Booksellers
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate.
Black Feminist Thought, 30th Anniversary Edition: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as militant revolutionaries and human rights advocates.
Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal
An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal
Anarchist Calisthenics, by James C. Scott
From Two Cheers for Anarchism, published last month by Princeton University Press. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who wen…
The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
"Tearing down myths and distortions on virtually every page, The Revolution Has Come is the first substantive account of the Black Panther Party’s Oakland chapter—the iconic gathering that birthed the party and held on to its very last breath. Robyn C. Spencer’s incisive attention to gender, state repression, black radical alliances, philosophical and ideological debates, and the organization’s long decline makes this one of the most original studies of the Panthers to appear in years." - Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America
From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions. Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement's changing fortunes from the pre–World War I era through the Spanish Civil War, Zimmer argues that anarchists, opposed to both American and Old World nationalism, severed all attachments to their nations of origin but also resisted assimilation into their host society. Their radical cosmopolitan outlook and identity instead embraced diversity and extended solidarity across national, ethnic, and racial divides. Though ultimately unable to withstand the onslaught of Americanism and other nationalisms, the anarchist movement nonetheless provided a shining example of a transnational collective identity delinked from the nation-state and racial hierarchies.
Black against Empire by Joshua Bloom | East Bay Booksellers
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities.
News for Black America - NewsOne
Breaking news for and about Black America: politics, original stories, diverse opinions, current events and their impact on Black lives.
The #BlackCommunistReadingList - AAIHS
Here is a list of recommended books on African Americans and Communism. As a graduate student at the University of Illinois, I read many of these books to gain an intellectual understanding of why black Americans and other people African descent saw Communism as a political ideology through which to achieve black liberation. Harry Haywood’s
