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