The Beginning | ||||||||
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The Autobiography Of Malcolm X | Assata by Assata Shakur | The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn | The Angela Y. Davis Reader edited by Joy James | |||||
The Larger Pool | ||||||||
Parecon: Life After Capitalism by Michael Albert (a proposal for an alternative economic model) | The Trajectory Of Change: Activist Strategies for Social Transformation By Michael Albert | Cultural Hegemony in the United States by Lee Artz and Bren Ortega Murphy (Breaks down the complex concept of Hegemony) | Living For Change by Grace Lee Boggs (Thought-provoking and inspiring autobiography) | The No-Nonsense Guide to World History by Chris Brazier (World history in less than 40,000 words) | Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky (Buy this and put it in your bathroom. Best advice ever.) | Cages Of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment In The United States by Ward Churchill | The Black Panthers Speak by Philip S. Foner | |
Detroit, I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin (Brief history of recent radical black worker organizations in Michigan. Very inspiring.) | Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century by Stan Goff (Like a guide for understanding the military for the peace movement) | The Movement Toward A New America : The Beginnings Of A Long Revolution by Mitchell Goodman (Out of print. Great 60s reader) | Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915 by Sidney Harring | A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey | Blood in My Eye by George L. Jackson | Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968 by George Katsiaficas | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction) | |
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South by Alex Lichtenstein | Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen | Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings by Subcommandante Marcos | God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane (fiction about African labor struggle and feminism) | Post-Conservative America by Kevin Phillips (Nixon's strategist shares his insightful analysis) | Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by Christian Parenti (Required reading.) | The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror by Christian Parenti | Democracy For the Few by Michael Parenti | |
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman (Television, technology, and the effect on political discussion) | Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney (Great) | How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney (The premiere history of Africa) | Walter Rodney Speaks by Walter Rodney | The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger |
SDS by Kirkpatrick Sale | Introduction to Marx and Engels: A Critical Reconstruction by Richard Schmitt (The best introduction) | Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford | |
Rivington Street by Meredith Tax (fiction) | Union Square by Meredith Tax (fiction. Sequel to Rivington Street) | The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World by Immanuel Wallerstein | Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams | Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams (A great history of the police) | Negroes With Guns by Robert F. Williams | Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements by Malcolm X (or any other collection of his talks) | Declarations Of Independence by Howard Zinn (tackles popular American myths) | |
The People's History Of The United States By Howard Zinn |
Joan Baez Bambouche Billy Bragg Blackalicious Black Star The Clash Sam Cooke The Coup Dead Prez (especially Let's Get Free!) Desaparecidos Ani Difranco Bob Dylan (especially his earlier stuff) Michael Franti & Spearhead From Monuments To Masses Woody Guthrie Immortal Technique The Isley Brothers The Kinks (especially Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)) Fela Kuti Lauryn Hill |
Le Tigre Lyrics Born M1 Manu Chao Bob Marley Micranots Mos Def (especially Black On Both Sides) Mr. Lif (especially I Phantom) Phil Ochs The O'Jays Gary Og The Perceptionists Public Enemy Reflection Eternal Gil Scott-Heron Michelle Shocked Seanchai & The Unity Squad Nina Simone Sleater-Kinney Sweatshop Union Talib Kweli X-Clan |