Suggested Readings

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Below are some relevant topics to read about.

Imperialism / Colonialism

• "The Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon *

• "Open Veins of Latin America" by Eduardo Galeano 

• "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein

• "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by Vladimir Lenin

• "Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism" by Kwame Nkrumah

• "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney

Prisons and Police Abolition

• "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Y. Davis

• "Freedom is a Constant Struggle" by Angela Y. Davis *

• "If They Come in the Morning" by Angela Y. Davis

• "Beyond Survival" by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha *

• "Blood in My Eye" George L. Jackson

• "Assata: An Autobiography" by Assata Shakur

• "The End of Policing" by Alex S. Vitale *

• "Golden Gulag" by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Critical Race Theory

• "Black Reconstruction" by W. E. B. Du Bois​

• "Black Skin, White Masks" by Frantz Fanon

• "Class, Race, and Marxism" by David Roediger

• "Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race" by Patrick Wolfe

* Indicates that the book is available in the San Antonio DSA Library