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African Diaspora

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal

We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Pan-Africanism: A History by Hakim Adi

Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing by Jeffrey S. Adler

We Will Return In The Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations 1960-1975 by Muhammad Ahmad

Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Recovery and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya

The History of Black Studies by Abdul Alkalimat

Black Awakening in Capitalist America by Robert L. Allen

A Voice from Harper's Ferry by Osborne Perry Anderson

American Negro Slave Revolts by Herbert Aptheker

The Haitian Revolution by Toussaint L'Ouverture; Edited by Nick Nesbitt; Introduction by Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Encyclopedia of African Religion edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama

Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness Edited by David Austin

African Socialism or Socialist Africa? by Mohammed Babu

A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist by Kuwasi Balagoon

The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power by Jared A. Ball

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 by Herman Lee Bennett

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era By Dan Berger

Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism by Marquis Bey

The Routledge Handbook of African Theology Edited by Elias Kifon Bongmba

Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements Edited by George Breitman

A Taste of Power : A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown

Die Nigger Die! A Political Autobiography
by Jamil Al-Amin FKA H. Rap Brown

Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War by Vincent Brown

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne

The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming A Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison & Fighting for Those Left Behind by Safiya Bukhari

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History by Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne

Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings by Amilcar Cabral

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South by Stephanie M. H. Camp

Global NATO and the Catastrophic Failure in Libya by Horace Campbell

Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism by Frank Chapman

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Soyica Diggs Colbert

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins

Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther by Marshall "Eddie" Conway and Dominque Stevenson

Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom Beyond America by Sohail Daulatzai

Black Mother: The Years of the African Slave Trade by Basil Davidson

Modern Africa: A Social and Political History by Basil Davidson

Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment edited by Carole Boyce Davies

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance Edited by Angela Y. Davis

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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W. E. B. Du Bois

Darkwater : Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois

In Battle for Peace: The Story of My 83rd Birthday by W. E. B. Du Bois

The World and Africa and Color and Democracy by W. E. B. Du Bois

Black Resistance to British Policing By Adam Elliott-Cooper

The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire by Erica R. Edwards

Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation By Yves Engler

Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies edited by Olajumoke Yacob-HalisoToyin Falola

A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays by Frantz Fanon

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer

Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State By Garrett Felber

Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Edited by Johanna Fernandez

Organized Labor and the Black Worker 1619-1981 by Philip S. Foner

The Black Panthers Speak Edited by Philip S. Foner

W.E.B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1890-1919 edited by Philip S. Foner

The Making of Black Revolutionaries by JAMES FORMAN

Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier

The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination by Robeson Taj Frazier

Revolutionary Intercommunalism and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination Edited by Amy Gdala

Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage By Dianne D. Glave

Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 by Lawrence Goldstone

For the People: Black Socialists in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean by Daryl Russell Grigsby

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman

Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist by Harry Haywood

Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 by Cheryl Higashida

The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement by Lance Hill

The New Huey P. Newton Reader
Edited by David Hilliard and Donald Weise

This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party by David Hilliard and Lewis Cole

Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans Edited by Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen

Invention of Ethiopia: The Making of Dependent Colonial State in Northeast Africa by Bonnie K. Holcomb and Sisai Ibssa

Black and Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963 by Gerald Horne

Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party by Gerald Horne

Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic by Gerald Horne

Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity by Gerald Horne

Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary by Gerald Horne

Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois by Gerald Horne

The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War by Gerald Horne

Black Worker in the Deep South by Hosea Hudson

Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean by Peter James Hudson

Blood in My Eye by George Jackson

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson

A History of Pan-African Revolt by C.L.R. James

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture by Joy James

Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals by Joy James

George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire by Leslie James

Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology Edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson

Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by JOY JAMES

Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics by Cedric Johnson

Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison by Paula C. Johnson

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention by Jamal Joseph

Pan-African Social Ecology: Speeches, Conversations, and Essays by Modibo Kadalie

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D. G. Kelley

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression By Robin D. G. Kelley

Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents by MARGARET KIMBERLEY

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.

The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King

The Invisible War: African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars edited by Y.N. Kly

A Theological Account of Nat Turner: Christianity, Violence, and Theology by Karl W. Lampley

Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas by David Tomas, Marc James Léger

Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism by Stefano Liberti

Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961 Edited by Jean Van Lierde

African Women in Revolution by Wunyabari O. Maloba

Part of My Soul Went with Him by Winnie Mandela and Mary Benson

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable

Naija Marxisms: Revolutionary Thought in Nigeria by Adam Mayer

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard

African Anarchism: The History of A Movement by Sam Mbah & I.E. Igariwey

Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism by Erik S. McDuffie

Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis Edited by Katherine McKittrick

The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi

Amílcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary by Peter Karibe Mendy

Proudly We Can be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961 by James Hunter Meriwether

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldua

Essential Essays (Two-volume set)
Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora edited by David Morley

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

To Die for the People Huey P. Newton, Edited by Toni Morrison

Samora Machel: An African Revolutionary Edited by Barry Munslow

We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings by Jalil Muntaqim

Cedric Robinson: Black Radicalism Beyond the Order of Time by Joshua Myers

The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean by Nick Nesbitt

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Africa Must Unite by Kwame Nkrumah

Class Struggle In Africa by Kwame Nkrumah

Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-colonization and Development with Particular Reference to the African Revolution by Kwame Nkrumah

Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution by Kwame Nkrumah

Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism by Julius Nyerere

Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State By Edward Onaci

The IMF, the World Bank and the African Debt: The Economic Impact edited by Bade Onimode

African Gender Studies: A Reader Edited by Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí

The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses by Oyeronke Oyewumi

We Charge Genocide: The Crime of the Government Against the Negro People by William L. Patterson

Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story by Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla

The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to The 1990s by John Potash

Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by
Barbara Ransby

Not Alms but Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950 By Touré F. Reed

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

Black Movements in America by Cedric J. Robinson

Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by WALTER RODNEY

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

The Groundings With My Brothers by Walter Rodney

The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney

As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoé Samudzi, William C. Anderson

Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87 By Thomas Sankara

Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle Paperback by Thomas Sankara

The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe

Black Liberation and Socialism by Ahmed Shawki

Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene by Mimi Sheller

The Black Pacific: Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections by Robbie Shilliam

The Concept of Human Rights by Issa G. Shivji

Communities of Resistance: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism by AMBALAVANER SIVANANDAN

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics by Lester K. Spence

The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland by Robyn C. Spencer

Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 by KIMBERLY SPRINGER

I Write What I Like : Selected Writings Edited by Aelred Stubbs

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Reconsidering Reparations by Olufemi O. Taiwo

African Sexualities: A Reader edited by Sylvia Tamale

Decolonization and Afro-Feminism by Sylvia Tamale

From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey by Ula Yvette Taylor

Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America Paperback Edited by Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard

The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power
Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire by Greg Thomas

Strategy and Tactics of the Revolution
by Ahmed Sekou Toure

The Point is to Change the World
Selected Writings of Andaiye Edited by Alissa Trotz

Black Power : The Politics of Liberation by Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power by Timothy B. Tyson

A Guide for Organizing Defense against White Supremacist, Patriarchal, and Fascist Violence by Ahjamu Umi

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by AKINYELE OMOWALE UMOJA

Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 by PENNY MARIE VON ESCHEN

Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions by Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph, and Sekou Odinga

The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s by Mary Helen Washington

Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa by Lee Wengraf

The Radical King Edited by Cornel West

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement By Monica M. White

Capitalism and Slavery By Eric Williams

Negroes With Guns by Robert F. Williams

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within U.S Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

Stolen Black Labor: The Political Economy of Domestic Colonialism by Omali Yeshitela

Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism by James Zeigler

The Green Book by Muammar al-Gaddafi