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
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

Wilhelm Reich
Nor will arguments be of any use against a fascist who is narcissistically convinced of the supreme superiority of his Teutonism, if only because he operates with irrational feelings and not with arguments. Hence, it would be hopeless to try to prove to a fascist that black people and Italians are not racially "inferior" to the Teutons. He feels himself to be "superior," and that's the end of it. The race theory can be refuted only by exposing its irrational functions, of which there are essenti ...more
Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

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