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Afro Pessimism Books
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.60 — 900 ratings — published 1997
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.32 — 400 ratings — published 1982
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,766 ratings — published 2007
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.48 — 223 ratings — published 2008
Afro-Pessimism: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.00 — 77 ratings — published 2017
Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.31 — 176 ratings — published 2009
Afropessimism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,014 ratings — published 2020
Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.47 — 74 ratings — published 2008
On the Postcolony (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.10 — 372 ratings — published 2001
Gramsci's Black Marx: Whither the Slave in Civil Society? (Unbound)
by (shelved 4 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.26 — 31 ratings — published 2003
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.42 — 101 ratings — published 2003
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,304 ratings — published 2016
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,022 ratings — published 1961
Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.69 — 42 ratings — published
(Dis)Forming The American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular
by (shelved 3 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.56 — 9 ratings — published 1993
Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 3.86 — 21 ratings — published 2007
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,530 ratings — published 1968
Mama's Baby Papa's Maybe : An American Grammar Book (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.44 — 120 ratings — published
Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,327 ratings — published 2016
No Humans Involved (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.67 — 42 ratings — published
The Hills of Hebron (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.32 — 139 ratings — published 1984
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Perverse Modernities)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.40 — 85 ratings — published 2009
Class Struggle in Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.39 — 282 ratings — published 1970
Blood in My Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,860 ratings — published 1972
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.40 — 5,299 ratings — published 2019
The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 3.75 — 20 ratings — published 2015
Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.18 — 61 ratings — published 1991
Toward the African Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.32 — 635 ratings — published 1964
The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published
GAAG, the Guerrilla Art Action Group, 1969-1976: A selection (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published 1978
The Little Edges (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.21 — 168 ratings — published 2014
At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.45 — 680 ratings — published 2003
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.60 — 33,529 ratings — published 1987
Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 3.60 — 20 ratings — published 2005
The Colored Museum (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.22 — 739 ratings — published 1987
Imprisoned Intellectuals (Transformative Politics Series, ed. Joy James)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.38 — 39 ratings — published 2003
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,675 ratings — published 1968
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,361 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,656 ratings — published 1952
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 3.99 — 515,157 ratings — published 1987
Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Thinking Gender)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.41 — 56 ratings — published 1996
Lonely Crusade (Himes, Chester)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.08 — 163 ratings — published 1947
The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.52 — 332 ratings — published 1995
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,458 ratings — published 2018
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)
by (shelved 1 time as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.45 — 176 ratings — published 2020
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 3.90 — 109 ratings — published 2015
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,008 ratings — published 1903
Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.62 — 404 ratings — published
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,793 ratings — published 2012
Venus in Two Acts (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as afro-pessimism)
avg rating 4.77 — 345 ratings — published