DROPOUT's Decolonize your bookshelf
Colonization and Imperialism affects nearly every aspect of our lives, even if we don't realize how deep these two things are embedded in our everyday.
Change is hard, unlearning things colonialism and imperialism has forced us to believe is hard. This channel is to serve as a place to find first steps in the right direction.
Remember to listen, we are all learning, no one is ever fully deprogrammed or learned enough.
This organized list of books, authors, and other links/resources was constructed on the now-archived Dropout.tv Discord server. Proper credit to volunteers & contributors of the info can be found there.
It was still made in the context of a corporate Discord server, so all sources shared needed to be legal resources/be legally accessible. Just FYI, Dropout hasn't claimed endorsement of this webpage.
Non-Fiction books
Orientalism - Edward Said
The Pitfalls of Liberalism - Kwame Ture
Non-Fiction books
Orientalism - Edward Said
The Pitfalls of Liberalism - Kwame Ture
Thomas Sankara Speaks - Thomas Sankara
Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis
Women, Race & Class - Angela Davis
Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis
White Man's Guilt - James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin
Right To Maim - Jasbir Puar
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Whereas: Poems - Layli Long Soldier
Blood In My Eye - George Jackson
As We Have Always Done - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Authors
Maya Angelou
Gloria Anzaldúa
Authors
Maya Angelou
Gloria Anzaldúa
James Baldwin
Wendy Brown
Aimé Césaire
Angela Davis
Blaise Diagne
Cheikh Anta Diop
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
Frantz Fanon
Paulo Freire
Eduardo Galeano
Mary Siisip Geniusz
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
bell hooks
George Jackson
Robin Wall Kimmerer
How do I get access to these books and other works?
Press/Publications
University presses
Bookstores
Paperbacks & Frybread - Lumbee woman owned book store that puts a spotlight on Black and Indigenous authors and especially showcases and uplifts indie and self-published authors from a wide array of communities who have been historically mistreated and ignored by the publishing industry.
A.B.O. Comix, An Oakland non profit. Their mission is art by prisoners, support for prisoners and profits to prisoners (especially lgbtq+).
Articles and other Media
Slingshot Hip Hop, a Palestinian documentary.
How “Wilderness” Was Invented Without Indigenous Peoples, An essay deconstructing the myth of the "pristine wilderness" and how it originated in colonialist/imperialist thinking.
Understanding Antisemitism, A document put together 7 years ago by a Jewish human rights organization about the present state and history of antisemitism.
Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, All over the world, it is an alarming time to be Jewish – but conflating anti-Zionism with Jew-hatred is a tragic mistake.
by xan. See also under Identity and Advocacy: Palestine Resources