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ANARKATA READING LIST (ABRIDGED)

Anarkata: A Statement does not exist separate from the diversity of Black/revolutionary contributions. In listening to/reading the Statement, we suggest that you also check out the following:

Call Me Akata: Reclaiming our Birthright as Indigenous and Afrikan People born on American Soil by Chelsea from the Black Youth Project

Rapping With a Street Trans Action Revolutionary – An Interview with Marsha P Johnson 

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

Blood in My Eye by George Jackson

The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in Riotous Manner by Saidiya Hartman

The Anarchism of Blackness by William C Anderson and Zoé Samudzi 

Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book by Hortense J Spillers

The Principles of Anarchism by Lucy Parsons

Every Cook Can Govern by CLR James

Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw

Anarchism and the Black Revolution by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin

Explanation of Misogynoir by Trudy from Gradient Lair

Beyond Nationalism, But Not Without It by Ashanti Alston

The Combahee River Collective Statement by the Combahee River Collective

Towards a Vibrant and Broad-Based African Anarchism by Ashanti Alston

Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley

As Black as Resistance by Zoe Samudzi and William C Anderson


Gays: Guardians of the Gate – An Interview with Malidoma Patrice Some by Bert H Hoff


Yurugu: An African Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani


African Anarchism: A History of a Movement by Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariwey 

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C Riley Snorton

Negroes with Guns by Robert Williams

Black Nationalism in America by John H Bracey, Jr., August Meier, and Elliot Rudwick


Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves by Angela Davis

Black Anarchism – A Reader by Black Rose Anarchist Federation


The African Roots of War by W.E.B du Bois

An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman by Claudia Jones 

The Potential of A Minority Revolutionary by Robert F Williams

Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances Beal

The ABC of Decolonization by Rowland “Ena͞emaehkiw” Keshena Robinson

An Introduction to the Fourth World by Merricatherine

Intercommunalism by Huey P Newton

The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors by Saidiya Hartman 

Black Reconstruction by WEB du Bois

Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis

A History of Pan African Revolt by CLR James

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon


Want to Start a Revolution? – Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare by Kwame Nkrumah

Consciencism by Kwame Nkrumah

African Socialism Revisited by Kwame Nkrumah

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies by Sylviane A Diouf

The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement by John K Thorton

Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas by Alvin O Thomspon

The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods by Russell Maroon Shoatz

Black Fighting Formations by Russell Maroon Shoatz

Black Sexual Politics – African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins


Organization and Spontaneity: The Theory of the Vanguard Party and its Application to the Black Movement in the US Today by Kimathi Mohammed

Mini-manual of the Urban Guerrilla by Carlos Marighella


Onticide: Afropessimism, Gay Nigger #1, and Surplus Violence by Calvin Warren


The White Working Class is a Political Fiction by Adam Theron Lee-Rensch


Gramsci’s Black Marx by Frank B Wilderson III

The Progressive Plantation by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin

Ontological Terror by Calvin Warren

In the Wake by Christina Sharpe

Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman


Notes on Blacceleration by Aria Dean

Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Truth/Power/Freedom: Toward the Human, After Man–It’s Overrepresentation, An Argument by Sylvia Wynter

Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human by Alexander G Weheliye

Afro-dog: Blackness and the Animal Question by Benedicte Boisseron 

Ecology is a Sistah’s Issue Too: The Politics of Emergent Afrocentric Ecowomanism by Shamara Shantu-Riley

Blackness, Anarchism, and Social Ecology by Modibo Kadalie

Critical Human Ecology: Historical Materialism and Natural Laws by Richard York and Phillip Mancus

The Working Class and Neo-Malthusianism by V.I. Lenin

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Capital by Karl Marx

The Poverty Philosophy by Karl Marx

Anarchy by Errico Malatesta

Anarkata Reading List: Bio
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