Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female (1971)
This document was written by Frances M. Beal in 1971. “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female” links the anti-capitalist struggle, women’s liberation, and black liberation.
Lynching: A Weapon of National Oppression (1932)
This pamphlet was written by Harry Haywood and Milton Howard in 1932 under the direction of the Labor Research Association. The pamphlet states the causes and purposes of lynching, the organization of…
The Black Unicorn – Audre Lorde (1978)
Audre Lorde was a feminist activist who wrote poetry to confront issues of racism, sexism, capitalism, and heterosexism. Her work expresses raw emotion that reflects the experiences that she had in he…
Thomas Sankara Speech Before the General Assembly of the United Nations (1984)
Thomas Sankara served as President of Burkina Faso for four years before being killed in a military coup supported by the United States and France. Beloved by his people for his social programmes, con…
Angela Davis on Mainstream Feminism/ Bourgeoise Feminism (2017)
In this lecture, Angela Davis addresses her career-long struggle to identify as a feminist, given the current state of the feminist movement. Breaking through the glass ceiling, as Davis notes, is gro…
The Fact of Blackness (1952)
Frantz Fanon was a French West Indian political philosopher whose work focused on post-colonial studies, decolonization, critical theory, and Marxism. In this work, Fanon works to theorize the way tha…
Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex (2000)
In this document, Angela Davis analyzes the Prison Industrial Complex, specifically the privatization of and profits from prisons, the ways that it is portrayed to citizens, and how it reinforces raci…
The Black Power Mixtape (1967-1975)
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of…
Introduction to Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (1952)
Black Skin, White Masks is an autoethnography, written by Frantz Fanon in 1952. Fanon shares his own experience while relating these experiences to a historical critique of racism and colonization.The So-Called Dependency Complex of Colonized Peoples by Frantz Fanon (1952)
This excerpt is from Black Skin, White Masks, an autoethnography written by Frantz Fanon in 1952. Fanon shares his own experience while relating these experiences to a historical critique of racism an…
Preface to The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon (1961)
This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
Violence in the International Context by Frantz Fanon (1961)
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of c…
Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness by Frantz Fanon (1961)
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of c…
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon (1961)
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of c…
Colonial War and Mental Disorders by Frantz Fanon (1961)
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race.
Concerning Violence by Frantz Fanon (1961)
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of c…
Black Women’s Manifesto (1970)
Communique 1 From The Weather Underground (1970)
This communication from the Weather Underground was published on May 21,1970 and declares war on the United States of America.
You Don’t Need a Weatherman To Know Which Way the Wind Blows by the Weather Underground (1969)
This position paper was distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18, 1969.
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (excerpt) by Saidiya Hartman (1997)
This excerpt explains Hartman’s thesis on the omnipresence of terror experience by enslaved people.
Let Us Shape the Future by Carl Oglesby (1965)
On November 27, 1965, the new president of Students for a Democratic Society, Carl Oglesby, gave a response to Paul Potter’s speech of the previous April.
Naming the System by Paul Potter (1965)
On April 17,1965, the president of the Students for a Democratic Society, Paul Potter, gave a speech at the March on Washington, the first major anti-Vietnam War march held in Washington D.C.
The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States by Winthrop D. Jordan (1974)
Professor Jordan uses anecdotes from a multidue of sources to answer the question of: what were the attitude of white men toward black people during the first two centuries of European and African set…
Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tradgedy in American History by Jorge Ramos (2006)
Journalist Jorge Ramos tells the story of 19 people who died while trying to cross the Mexico-U.S. border.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron (1971)
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers The revolution will be live
Proclamation to the Great White Father and All His People – Alcatraz Proclamation (1969)
Between November 20, 1969 and June 11, 1971, a group of Indigenous people – led by the group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) – occupied Alcatraz Island. The last of the occupiers were removed by the Unite…
CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) Demands – 2020
The Demands of the police-free Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone established in Seattle, USA on 8 June during the height of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Uprising. These included the abolition of the city’s…
Feminism is for Everybody (2000)
bell hooks is a feminist, professor, and activist. In 2000, she published “Feminism is for Everybody”. Key to her politics and feminist philosophy is that the overarching “enemy”/structure to dismantl…
The Black Man’s Stake in Vietnam by Eldridge Cleaver (1969)
Eldridge Cleaver, an early leader of the Black Panther Party, wrote this article to the Black men who were being drafted into Vietnam. Cleaver explains the implications of this on a global stage and c…
People Don’t Get Radicalized Fighting Other People’s Battles (Redstockings, 1968)
This magazine was published by the Redstockings, a radical feminist group, as part of their Action Series. The series of writings in it contain intersectional analysis of the New Left Movement, and th…
Power Anywhere Where There’s People! (1969)
The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, and originally was called The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. It was a militant, leftist group in support of Black Liberation…
In Defense of Self Defense (1967)
The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, and originally was called The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. It was a militant, leftist group in support of Black Liberation…
Malcolm X Liberation University: Collection of News Articles
In October of 1969, the Malcolm X Liberation Univeristy was founded byHoward Fuller and other prominent Black activists. The creation of the university was inspired by Black Nationalism and Pan-Africa…
Stanford “Disorientation Guide” (2005)
Published in 2005 by student activists, this Stanford University “Disorientation Guide” did an in depth analysis of the history of Standford Unviersity in relation to racism, sexism, and capitalism.
Port Huron Statement (1962)
The Port Huron Statement was published in 1962 at a United Workers Retreat in Port Huron, Michigan. It was the first time Students for a Democratic Society gathered from across the nation, and became…
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964)
In “The Ballot or the Bullet”, civil rights activist and Black Nationalist Malcolm X spoke to Black Americans, encouraging them to vote if they had the ability to. In this speech, however, he noted th…
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House (1984)
In 1984, In 1985, feminist, civil rights activist, and librarian Audre Lorde published “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”. The essay argued for the dismantling of the current…
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
This 1968 book by Brazilian author Paulo Friere is considered one of the pillars of the critical pedagogy movement, which aimed to apply critical theory to the study of culture. The methodology in the…
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities (1985)
In 1985, feminist, civil rights activist, and librarian Audre Lorde published “I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities”. The essay was centered around organizing black women in the…
The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective (1981)
In 1981, Angela Davis Published “Women, Race, and Class”. The book analyzes the women’s liberation movement through the lens and intersection of racism and classism. Chapter 13, “The Approaching Obsol…
We Want to Riot, Not to Work – The Brixton Uprisings (1982)
A pamphlet giving the day by day account of the 1981 Brixton Uprisings, race tension/solidarity, and theoretical reflections on the rise of the “Impossible Class”
Everybody’s Protest Novel by James Baldwin (1949)
“Everybody’s Protest Novel” is an essay written by James Baldwin that criticized protest fiction, specifically Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as something that perpetuates the status quo s…
Black Power by Stokely Carmichael (1966)
Carmichael expands on black power in his speech to Berkeley students in 1966. SNCC and the Black power movement tried to create new standards of legitimacy by shifting away from white supremacy and tr…