Race Theory


So You Want to Talk About Race
Between the World and Me
Women, Race & Class
Black Skin, White Masks
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The Wretched of the Earth
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
How to Be an Antiracist
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
The Souls of Black Folk
The Racial Contract
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Wilhelm Reich
The patriarchal authoritarian sexual order that resulted from the revolutionary processes of latter-day matriarchy (economic independence of the chief's family from the maternal gens, a growing exchange of goods between the tribes, development of the means of production, etc.) becomes the primary basis of authoritarian ideology by depriving the women, children, and adolescents of their sexual freedom, making a commodity of sex and placing sexual interests in the service of economic subjugation. ...more
Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Hannah Arendt
The philosophy of Hobbes, it is true, contains nothing of modern race doctrines, which not only stir up the mob, but in their totalitarian form outline very clearly the forms of organization through which humanity could carry the prerequisite for all race doctrines, that is, the exclusion in principle of the idea of humanity which constitutes the sole regulating idea of international law. With the assumption that foreign politics is necessarily outside of the human contract, engaged in the perpe ...more
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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