{"title":"Black August Reading List","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack August is a reminder of the role of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eBlack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Liberation Movement. During this month, we memorialize \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eBlack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e political prisoners killed by the state and honor the legacy of those who have fought and continue to fight against state-sanctioned anti-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eBlack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e violence. You can find books oriented towards this tradition and these topics here every day at the store—but here’s just a short list of relevant titles!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-dying-colonialism","title":"A Dying Colonialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePsychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wretched of the Earth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlack Skin, White Masks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Dying Colonialism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as \"primitive,\" in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. 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Kendi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis beautiful new edition of Angela Davis’s classic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e features an expansive new introduction by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e“I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when so many are making collective demands for radical change and are seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of the past.” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Angela Y. Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAngela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAn Autobiography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. 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Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials. The result is a signal contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Autobiography of Malcolm X\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the works of Maya Angelou. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. 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Unearthing the thrilling history of grassroots movements and renegade intellectuals and artists, Kelley recovers the dreams of the future worlds Black radicals struggled to achieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the insights of activists, from the Revolutionary Action Movement to the insurgent poetics of Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, Kelley chronicles the quest for a homeland, the hope that communism offered, the politics of surrealism, the transformative potential of Black feminism, and the long dream of reparations for slavery and Jim Crow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this edition, Kelley includes a new introduction reflecting on how movements of the past 20 years have expanded his own vision of freedom to include mutual care, disability justice, abolition, and decolonization, and a new epilogue exploring the visionary organizing of today's freedom dreamers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis classic history of the power of the Black radical imagination is as timely as when it was first published.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobin D G Kelley\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003eAugust 01 2022\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780807007037\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 080700703X\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Call \u0026 Response Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42704998629445,"sku":"9780807007037","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/6621\/4213\/files\/81exQe0uFYL._SL1500.jpg?v=1745955636"},{"product_id":"futures-of-black-radicalism","title":"Futures of Black Radicalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWith racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack rebellion has returned. 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