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Black Liberation in Conservative America - Manning Marable
A classic collection of essays by one of America's most prominent scholar/activists, Black Liberation in Conservative America defines the crises and challenges confronting black America on the eve of the 21st century.


Manning Marable chronicles the major debates, issues, and conflicts that have defined the politics of race, class, and gender in the 1990s, giving particular attention to the ...
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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid - Frank Wilderson, III
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him a "threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid is that "comment." It is also his response to a question posed five years later by a student in a California univer...
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Malcolm X: Last Message Part 2 - Malcolm X
The second part of Malcolm's Last Message recording — done in Detroit, and with very good sound quality. The CD kind of picks right up where the speech left off on disc one, meaning that you should probably hear the first volume first — but the scope of the material is great, showing an increasingly complex understanding of politics, race, and the global scene — all presented with an uncann...
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Malcolm X: Last Message Part 1 - Malcolm X
Part one of one of Malcolm's greatest recordings — the chilling Last Message, in which he begins by talking about his experience staying at a house in Detroit that had been bombed the night before his speech. An exhilirating classic.
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Great Debate With James Baldwin and Others - Malcolm X (Contributor) and James Baldwin (Contributor)
Two revolutionary giants converse about race in the United State, segregation among other topics.
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Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex - CR-10 Publications Collective (Editor)
Today, over seven million people live under the control of U.S. jail, prison, probation, or parole systems—the vast majority of them people of color and young people. Between 2000 and 2007, Congress added 454 new offences to the Federal criminal code. Policing at all levels is increasingly militarized and demands more and more resources. The crisis shows no signs of slowing.
For a decade, Critical R...
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White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son - Tim Wise
From his experiences as a white anti-racist activist and white American, Wise has crafted the first history of what it means to be part of the "majority" in America. Combining the emotion of personal stories with insights gleaned from 15 years as an educator, White Like Me examines the ways in which whites reap the benefits of "racial preferences" - whether or not they actively engage in racism. By criticall...
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Bomb The Suburbs - William Upski Wimsatt
"It's my favorite book I read in jail." [Tupac Shakur] On hip-hop, rap, and the culture and politics (or otherwise) that surround it. From the role of white kids, to gangsta rap, to journalism, to breakdancing, freight-hopping, black intellectuals and graffitti. "Through stories, cartoons, interviews, disses, parodies and original research, (it) challenges the suburban mind-set wherever it is found, in subu...
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Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male - Tim Wise
Speaking Treason Fluently is an examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans, in every realm of daily life: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere. Drawing on a wide range of anecdote and data, Tim Wise demonstrates the numerous ways in which racism not only burdens people of color, but also discusses the ways in which racial privilege c...
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Mr. Spic Goes to Washington - Ilan Stavans and Roberto Weil (Illustrator)
In the face of social inequalities, sometimes strength for mobilization can be found through laughter. It is this ethos that Ilan Stavans employs in this politically-minded graphic novel. Weaving humor with social commentary, Stavans tells a tale of a Latino man taking Los Angeles' mayoral office by storm — and refusing to stop there. Illustrated throughout by Roberto Weil, the story follows the life a...
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