michelle alexander
The New Jim Crow
muhammad ali
Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (2011).
Critical Ethnic Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, Social Text, and South Atlantic Quarterly
Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (2017).
bhimrao ramji ambedkar
Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (2011).
Critical Ethnic Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, Social Text, and South Atlantic Quarterly
Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (2017).
mohan ambikaipaker
Gendered Antiblackness and Police Violence in the Formations of British Political Liberalism
maya angelou
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
marimba ani
Yurugu
ella baker
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism (2020), Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
kuwasi balagoon
A Soldier’s Story
The Continuing Appeal of Anti-Imperialism
james baldwin
The Fire Next Time
mia bay
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925
Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents
derrick bell
African American studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism (2020), Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
pierre van den berghe
critical race theory
Bell, Derrick. “Racial Realism.” In Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, ed. Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas, 302–12. New York: New Press, 1996.
gwendolyn brooks
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
thema bryant-davis
African American studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
judith butler
Undoing Gender
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
octavia e. butler
Kindred
Mind of My Mind
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
jodi a. byrd
African American studies
Byrd, Jodi. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Not Yet: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Anticolonial Liberation
amilcar cabral
African American studies
Byrd, Jodi. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
hazel v. carby
African American studies
Carby, Hazel. “It Jus Be’s Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women’s Blues.” Radical America 20.4 (1986): 9–22.
Carby, Hazel V. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
aimé césaire
African American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
shirley chisholm
African American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
patricia hill collins
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
moon-kie jung + joão h. costa vargas
sociology and anthropology
Antiblackness of the Social and the Human.
kimberlé crenshaw
African American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
angela davis
African American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
iyko day
African American studies
Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2016
Afro-feminism before Afropessimism: Meditations on Gender and Ontology
joy degruy
African American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
frederick douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-Slavery Movement. Hartford, CT: Park Publishing Co., 1881.
w.e.b. dubois
African American studies
Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880. 1935; New York: Free Press, 1995.
The Souls of Black Folk. New York: New American Library, 1969
ron eyerman
African American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
paul lovejoy + toyin falola
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
franz fanon
Black Skin, White Masks
The Wretched of the Earth
anthony paul farley
Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness
crystal m. fleming
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
eric foner
African American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
thomas foster
African American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
john hope franklin
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
paulo freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
francis fukuyama
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
kahlil gibran
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
nikki giovanni
The Women and the Men
Sacred Cows and Other Edibles
eddie glaude jr.
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
jacqueline goldsby
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
peter j. gomes
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
lewis gordon
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism
Context: Ruminations on Violence and Anonymity
Existential Dynamics of Theorizing Black Invisibility
Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences
Shifting the Geography of Reason in an Age of Disciplinary Decadence
antonio gramsci
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
The Antonio Gramsci Reader
Richard Theodore Greener
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
farah jasmine griffin
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
sarah haley
Africazn American studies
Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability
kwame ture + charles hamilton
Africazn American studies
Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability
fred hampton
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
ian f. haney-lopez
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
saidiya hartman
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America
Lose Your Mother
lauryn hill
miseducation
katsuya hirano
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
bell hooks
Africazn American studies
Hooks, B. (2006). Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism. Cambridge, MA: South End.
Drusilla Dunjee Houston
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010)
zora neale hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Voodoo Gods: An Inquiry into Native Myths and Magic in Jamaica and Haiti
Mules and Men: A Treasury of Black American Folklore
Zakiyyah iman Jackson
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
joy james
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
gayl a. jones
Corregidora
White Rat
Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature
nikole hannah jones
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
june jordan
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
moon-kie jung
Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing US Racisms Past and Present. Jung, Moon-Kie. “Constituting the U.S. Empire-State and White Supremacy: The Early Years.” In State of White Supremacy: Racism, Governance, and the United States, ed. Moon-Kie Jung, João H. Costa Vargas, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, 1–23. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011
robin d.g. kelley
Africazn American studies
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Poetry and the Political Imagination: Aimé Césaire, Negritude, and the Applications of Surrealism
jamaica kincaid
At the Bottom of the River
A Small Place
Talk Stories
martin l. king jr.
Africazn American studies
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
george lipsitz
Africazn American studies
How Racism Takes Place. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Benefit from Identity Politics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
alain leroy locke
The New Negro: An Interpretation
audre lorde
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
allen e.s. lumba
Discourse on Colonialism. Trans. Joan Pinkham. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
manning marable
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering.
achille mbembe
Necropolitics
resmaa menakem
The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering.
charles mills
The Racial Contract
Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race
From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism
Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism
Stephanie Latty + Megan Scribe
Alena Peters + anthony Morgan
Not Enough Human: At the Scenes of Indigenous and Black Dispossession.
toni morrison
Love
Song of Solomon
The Source of Self-Regard
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
s.j. murray
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
huey p. newton
Revolutionary Suicide
To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton
freidrich nietzsche
The Will to Power
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
kwame nkrumah
Consciencism
Revolutionary Path
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
julius Nyerere
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
Nnedi Okorafor
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
lucius t. outlaw, jr.
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
nell irvin painter
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
Tyrone S. Palmer
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
lucy e. parsons
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
orlando patterson
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
william pickens
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
chanda prescod-weinstein
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
claudia rankine
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
david roediger
african american studies
Roediger, David. “The Retreat from Race and Class.” Monthly Review 58.3 (2006): 40–51.
Towards the Abolition of Whiteness. London: Verso, 1994.
The Wages of Whiteness. London: Verso, 1999.
bayard rustin
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
sonia sanchez
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
sapphire
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
dean itsuji saranillio
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
jared sexton
african american studies
Sexton, Jared A. Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
“People-of-Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery.” Social Text 28.2 (2010): 31–56.
“The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism.” InTensions 5 (2011): 1–47.
“The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign.” Critical Sociology (December 19, 2014). Shah, Nyan. Contagious Divides: E
assata shakur
african american studies
Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography. London: Zed Books, 1987.
christina sharpe
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
c. riley snorton
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
anne spencer
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
hortense j. spillers
african american studies
Spillers, Hortense J. Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
“The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Post-Date.”
“Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” (1987)
neil degrasse tyson
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
joao h. costa-vargas
african american studies
Vargas, João Costa, and Joy James. “Refusing Blackness-as-Victimization: Trayvon Martin and the Black Cyborgs.” In Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, ed. George Yancy and Janine Jones, 193–204. Plymouth, UK: Lexington, 2012.
pompée-valentin vastey
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
nayyirah waheed
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
alice walker
african american studies
Walker, Alice. The Temple of My Familiar. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
immanuel m. wallerstein
african american studies
Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1991
calvin warren
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
harriet a. washington
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
phillis wheatley
african american studies
Wheatley, Phillis. The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley. Edited by John Shields. Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
maurice white
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
frank wilderson iii
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
isabel wilkerson
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
roger f. williams
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
derald wing sue
african american studies
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2015)
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire / Frank B. Wilderson III 37
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010).
soyinka wole
Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms
sylvia wynter
Beyond Liberal and Marxist Leninist Feminisms: Towards an Autonomous Frame of Reference
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument
malcolm x
By Any Means Necessary
The Autobiography of Malcolm X