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Afropessimism
Afropessimism - Frank Wilderson III
🎥 Afropessimism and the Anxiety of Antagonism- Frank Wilderson III
🎥 An Ontology of Betrayal- Salamawit Terrefe, Joy James, and Frank Wilderson III
🎧 Volume XII: Afropessimism- PAGES Pod
🌎 Afro-pessimism: The Unclear World- Jared Sexton
Black and Blur- Fred Moten
Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon
🎥 Fred Moten on Palestine and the Nation-State of Israel - Fred Moten
In the Wake - Christina Sharpe
🎥 Irreconcilable Anti-Blackness- Frank Wilderson III
📄 Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe- Hortense Spillers
On Being Human as Praxis- Sylvia Wynter
Ontological Terror - Calvin Warren
🎥 On Violence- Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
🌎 Phantasmagoria; or, The World is a Haunted Plantation- Salamawit Terrefe
Red, White, and Black - Frank Wilderson III
Scenes of Subjection - Saidiya Hartman
Slavery and Social Death - Orlando Patterson
📄 The case of blackness - Fred Moeten
📄 The position of the unthought- Saidiya Hartman & Frank Wilderson III
📄 The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-pessimism and Black Optimism- Jared Sexton
📄 Venus in Two Acts- Saidiya Hartman
Wither Fanon - David Marriot
Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
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Black Feminism
🌎 Aint I a Woman - SoJourner Truth
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism- bell hooks
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South- Deborah Gray White
📄 Beyond Black and Blue: BDSM, Internet Pornography, and Black Female Sexuality- Ariane Cruz
Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins
Black Feminism Reimagined - Jennifer Nash
Black Women, Intersectionality, and Workplace Bullying: Intersecting Distress- Leah Hollis
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia- Sabrina Strings
🎥 Mapping History, Engaging with Possibility: Black Feminism(s) Today- Joy James, Kris Sealey, & Nathifa Greene
📄 Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color- Kimberlè Crenshaw
The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to the Anti-Racist Struggle- Myisha Cherry
📄 The Combahee River Collective Statement- Combahee River Collective
🎥 The Danger of a Single Story- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
🎧 Volume X: The Case for Rage- PAGES Pod
🎧 Volume XV: Body Politics - PAGES Pod
📄 Word to the Wise: Notes on a Black Feminist Metaphilosophy of Race- Kristie Dotson
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Black Literature
Baracoon - Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Giovanni’s Room- James Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man- James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk- James Baldwin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Kindred - Olivia Butler
Queen Sugar- Natalie Baszile
The Beautiful Struggle- Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
🌎 The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Fire Next Time- James Balwdin
The Nickel Boys- Colson Whitehead
The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Their Eyes Were Watchin God - Zora Neale Hurston
We Were Eight Years in Power- Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief- Donald Goines
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Black Male Studies
🎥 Dilemmas of the Black Male Identity- Tommy Curry
🎥 How Racism Drove the Development of 19th & 20th Century Feminist Theory- Tommy Curry
📄 Killing Boogeymen: Phallicism and the Misandric Mischaracterizations of Black Males in Theory- Tommy Curry
On Black Men - David Marriott
The Man-not - Tommy Curry
📄 She Touched Me: Five Snapshots of Adult Sexual Violations of Black Boys- Tommy Curry & Ebony Utley
Soul on Ice - Eldridge Cleaver
White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief- Donald Goines
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Black Studies
Alienation and Freedom- Frantz Fanon
Articulate While Black - H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman
Black Marxism- Cedric Robinson
Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. DuBois
Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon
Bound in Wedlock- Tera Hunter
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination- Dariek Scott
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete- William Rhoden
Freedom is a Constant Struggle- Angela Davis
Futures of Black Radicalism- Gaye Johnson
📄 Is Islamaphobia Always Racism?- Lauwers
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route- Saidiya Hartman
Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass - Fredrick Douglass
The Black Five: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era - Claude Johnson
🎥 The Black Outdoors- Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman
🌎 The Case for Reparations- Ta-Nehisi Coates
🌎 The Conservation of Races - W.E.B. DuBois
The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict- Austin Reed
🌎 The Souls of Black Folk- W.E.B. DuBois
🌎 Up From Slavery- Booker T. Washington
🎧 Volume XIII: Black Pleasure- PAGES Pod
Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
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Diaspora Studies
Conscripts of Modernity- David Scott
Horizon, Sea, and Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation- Andrea Davis
📄 Is Islamaphobia Always Racism?- Anna Sophie Lauwers
🎥 Israel responds to accusations of genocide presented by South Africa at the International Court of Justice [Jan. 12, 2024]
🎥 On Violence- Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
🎥 Race and Enlightenment- Tommy Curry
Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class, and Social Domination- Charles Mills
🎥 South Africa presents arguments of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice [Jan. 11, 2024]
Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle- Brackette Williams
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War- Vincent Brown
The Black Jacobins - C. L. R. James
🎥 The Idea of a Moral and Reparatory History of New World Slavery- David Scott
The Jamaican People 1880-1902: Race, Class, and Social Control- Patrick Bryan
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Gender and Sexuality
A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography- Mireille Miller-Young
All Boys Arent Blue - George M. Johnson
Between Desire and Pleasure- Frida Beckman
📄 Beyond Black and Blue: BDSM, Internet Pornography, and Black Female Sexuality- Cruz
Beyond Monogamy: The Future of Polyqueer Sexualities- Mimi Schippers
Black and Sexy: A Framework of Racialized Sexuality- Tracie Gilbert
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology- E. Patrick Johnson
Black Sexual Politics - Patricia Hill Collins
Exploring Black Sexuality- Robert Staples
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination- Dariek Scot
Internalized Homonegativity Among Same Gender Loving Black Men: An Exploration of Truths- P. Ryan Grant
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies- E. Patrick Johnson
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good- Adrienne Maree Brown
📄 Poly Economics: Capitalism, Class, and Polyamory- Christian Klesse
The Black Body in Ecstacy - Jennifer Nash
The Color of Kink - Arianne Cruz
The Erotic Life of Racism - Sharon P. Holland
The History of Sexuality: An Introduction- Michel Foucault
📄 The Reimagining Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality in Indigenous Communities Colloquium: An Overview and Reflective Essay- Natasha Stirrett
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality- Julie Decker
The Spectre of Promiscuity: Gay Male and Bisexual Non-monogamies and Polyamories- Christian Klesse
📄 Why Yellow Fever Isnt Flattering- Robin Zheng
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Love and Relationships
Against Marriage- Clare Chambers
All About Love - bell hooks
Beyond Monogamy: The Future of Polyqueer Sexualities- Mimi Schippers
Black Love, Black Hate- Felice Blake
Black women, Black love - Dianne Stewart
Bound in Wedlock- Tera Hunter
Communion: The Female Search for Love- bell hooks
📄 Critical Relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and Multispecies Belonging Beyond Settler Sex & Nature- Kim TallBear
Fraught Intimacies: Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere- Nathan Rambukkana
📄 How Does Stalking Wrong the Victim? - Elizabeth Brake
It’s Called Polyamory: Coming Out about Your Nonmonogamous Relationships- Tamara Pincus
📄 Love as Valuing a Relationship - Niko Kolodny
Love in the Dark: Philosophy by Another Name- Diane Enns
Minimizing Marriage - Elizabeth Brake
📄 Monogamy Unredeemed- Harry Chalmers
📄 Nonmarriage- Naomi R. Cahn and June Carbone
Perversions of Love and Hate- Renata Salecl
📄 Poly Economics: Capitalism, Class, and Polyamory- Christian Klesse
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Non-Monogamy- Jessica Fern
Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning- Carrie Jenkins
Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored and Still Live Happily Ever After- Bella DePaulo
📄 The Reimagining Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality in Indigenous Communities Colloquium: An Overview and Reflective Essay- Natasha Stirrett
Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America- Frances Smith Foster
Veil and Vow - Aneeka Henderson
🎧 Volume IX: Sad Love w/ Prof Carrie Jenkins- PAGES Pod
🎧 Why It’s Ok to Not Be Monogamous- PAGES Pod
What Love is and What it Could Be- Carrie Jenkins
Why It’s Ok to Not Be Monogamous- Justin Clardy
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Philosophy
🌎 A critique of pure reason - Immanuel Kant
🌎 A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
🌎 Apology- Plato
📄 An Ethics of Care- Eva Kittay
Being and Time- Martin Heidegger
🌎 Discourses- Epictetus
Discourses and Selected Writings- Epictetus
🌎 Euthyphro- Plato
📄 Imagining in Oppressive Contexts or What’s Wrong with Blackface?- Robin Zheng
Love’s Vision- Troy Jollimore
🌎 Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
On Friendship- Alexander Nehamas
On Truth- Harry Frankfurt
On What Matters- Derek Parfit
The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to the Anti-Racist Struggle- Myisha Cherry
The Importance of What we Care About- Harry Frankfurt
The History of Sexuality: An Introduction- Michel Foucault
The Racial Contract- Charles Mills
🌎 The Republic - Plato
🌎 The Symposium - Plato
What Love is and What it Could Be- Carrie Jenkins
What We Owe To Each Other- T.M. Scanlo
🎧 Why It’s Ok to Not Be Monogamous- PAGES Pod
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Politics
A Theory of Justice - John Rawls
After Marriage: Rethinking Marital Relationships- Elizabeth Brake
Against Marriage- Clare Chambers
Are Prisons Obsolete?- Angela Davis
Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks- Sarah Florini
Black Marxism- Cedric Robinson
Black Power - Kwame Ture
Black Sexual Politics- Patricia Hill Collins
🎥 Charles Mills on Liberalism- Charles Mills
Fraught Intimacies: Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere- Nathan Rambukkana
Freedom is a Constant Struggle- Angela Davis
🎥 Israel responds to claims of genocide presented by South Africa at the International Court of Justice [Jan. 12th, 2024]
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement - John Rawls
Minimizing Marriage- Elizabeth Brake
📄 Nonmarriage- Naomi R. Cahn and June Carbone
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality- Danielle Allen
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good- Adrienne Maree Brown
Political Emotions- Martha Nussbaum
Political Liberalism- John Rawls
Pollution is Colonialism- Max Liboiron
📄 Poly Economics: Capitalism, Class, and Polyamory- Christian Klesse
Rights, Race, and Recognition- Derrick Darby
🎥 South Africa presents arguments of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice [Jan. 11th, 2024]
🎥 Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Full Opening Statement on Reparations at House Hearing [Jun. 19th, 2019]- Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a New Human Future at the Frontier of Power- Shoshana Zuboff
🌎 The Case for Reparations- Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure- Celine Shimizu et. al
🌎 The First White President- Ta-Nehisi Coates
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
The Racial Contract- Charles Mills
The Rich and the Rest of Us- Cornel West and Tavis Smiley
The Sympathetic State- Michelle Landis Dauber
Twice the Work of Free Labor- Alex Lichtenstein
🌎 United States Bill of Rights - James Madison
🌎 United States Declaration of Independence- Thomas Jefferson et. al.
Discussion guides
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All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M Johnson
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Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern
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The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Other resources
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Quarterly PAGES Pick: The Case for Rage by Myisha Cherry (Q1 '23)
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Afro-Pessimist Reading List
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Frank Wilderson's "Incognegro"
Critical Motifs
Scholarly Notes with Citations