Resistance Is Education
Black Study is a long-standing community based commitment to distribute education and provide the critical tools for social analysis and radical transformation.
It aims to empower all our people by demystifying and clarifying the causes and contexts of the systems of oppression and social inequity that we face, and by giving us tools to build a truly democratic and redistributive future.
Discover a collection of works that aim to break down disciplinary boundaries and explode the walls separating the university from larger and more diverse communities.
Resources on Abolition
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Mariame Kaba- We Do This ‘Til We Free Ourselves
Manning Marable- Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives
Colleen Hackett- Shifting Carceral Landscapes
Ruth Wilson Gilmore and James Kilgore- Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
Ruth Wilson Gilmore- Golden Gulag, 21: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Dylan Rodriguez- Abolition is Our Obligation
Dylan Rodriguez- Abolition as Praxis of Human Being
Resources on Black StudY
Frantz Fanon
Walter Rodney- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Vincent Harding- There is a River: Black Struggle for Freedom in America
Joseph Inikori- Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
Cheikh Anta Diop- The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
Amilcar Cabral- Unity and Struggle
Frantz Fanon- Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon- Black Skin White Masks
Markus Garvey- Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey
CLR James- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
Malcolm X- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Steve Biko- I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
Ngugi wa Thiong’o- Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Cedric Robinson- Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Resources on The Black Arts Movement
Gil Scott-Heron
Alice Walker- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Gil Scott-Heron- The Last Holiday: A Memoir
Aimé Césaire- Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka)- Black Music
Fred Moten- In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Stuart Hall- Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance
Toni Morrison- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison- Nobel Lecture (1993)
Sonia Sanchez et al. ed.- Sos--Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader
Resources on Caribbean Thinking
Erna Brodber
Carole Boyce Davies- Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from the Twilight Zone
Barry Chevannes- Rastafari: Roots and Ideology
Derek Walcott- Star-Apple Kingdom
Sylvia Wynter- Unsettling the coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom: Towards the human, after man, its overrepresentation—An argument
Lloyd Best and Kari Levitt- Outline of a General theory of the Caribbean Economy
Norman Girvan- Corporate Imperialism: Conflict and Expropriation
Edouard Glissant- Poetics of Relation
Kamau Brathwaite- The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy--Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks
Erna Brodber- Continent of Black Consciousness: On The History Of The African Diaspora From Slavery To Present Day
Resources on Queer & Feminist Studies
bell hooks
Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa- This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Akasha Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott and Barbara Smith- But Some of Us are Brave
Combahee River Collective- Combahee River Collective Statement
Hortense J. Spillers- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book
Kimberly Springer- Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980
Keisha Blain- Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
bell hooks- Theory as Liberatory Practice
LaMonda Horton-Stallings- Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures
E. Patrick Johnson- Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
E. Patrick Johnson- Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
Kathrine Dunham- Island Possessed