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Themed sets of essential decolonial texts. Each bundle links to Bookshop.org, where your purchase supports independent bookstores and the work of this archive.
Four books and a pamphlet on the U.S. carceral apparatus, its racial-economic function, and the abolitionist tradition that has been arguing for its dismantling since the convict-leasing aftermath of the Thirteenth Amendment.
The numbers behind the polemic. Read these three together and the edifice of European 'rise' starts to look like what it was: a long extraction project funded by the conquered.
The Caribbean has produced a disproportionate share of the twentieth century's most consequential decolonial thinkers. Five books from the long Caribbean tradition — Martinican, Trinidadian, Guyanese, Jamaican — that have organized everything else.
From Cooper in 1892 to Hartman in 1997. Five books that map the long intellectual line of Black feminist thought as a discipline distinct from, and demanding of, the white-led feminist tradition that has tried, repeatedly, to absorb it.
If you read nothing else this year, these are the five. The shortest path through 20th-century decolonial thought.
From Anna Julia Cooper in 1892 to bell hooks's late essays — the intellectual line that has done the hardest work, most consistently, for the longest time.
The political tradition that connects Kingston to Accra to Conakry to Detroit. Five books that document Pan-Africanism as it actually existed — as a political project, not a mood.
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