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Book Cover for: Black Foam, Haji Jabir

Black Foam

Haji Jabir
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Started reading Black Foam by Haji Jaber (translated by the brilliant @sawadhussain and @mlynxqualey) https://t.co/shmSpkety7

Paperback, 2023

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ocean of Trade, Pedro Machado

Ocean of Trade

Pedro Machado
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"...from the 1750s onwards every Indian vessel that left the African coast for the subcontinent transported slaves." - Pedro Machado, Ocean of Trade.

Paperback, 2016

$37.00$18.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Season in the Congo, Aimé Césaire

A Season in the Congo

Aimé Césaire
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“You are the invention of the past, and I’m the inventor of the future.” Aimé Césaire, A Season in the Congo (tr. Spivak).

Paperback, 2020

$12.50$6.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia, Walter Hakala

Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia

Walter Hakala
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@FawadTariq10 Aamir Mufti, Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures Maryam Khan, Who is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms Walter Hakala, Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. Happy reading 🙏🏾

Hardcover, 2016

$75.00$50.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Anarchism and the Black Revolution: The Definitive Edition

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
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Happy birthday Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin! Everyone should read Anarchism and the Black Revolution. https://t.co/uMuT8K9c76 https://t.co/jJsjYNnbaH

Paperback, 2021

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Orientalism, Edward W. Said

Orientalism

Edward W. Said
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Please go read ‘Orientalism’ by Edward Said. ‘Covering Islam’ is also helpful.

Paperback, 1979

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Dying Colonialism, Frantz Fanon

A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon
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"Everything is still possible." - Frantz Fanon, "A Dying Colonialism." "If man was not made by God but by man, then that he *has been* made in the past proves he *can be* (and for Fanon, is being) made again." - Darieck Scott, "Fanon's Muscles." (*=italics)

Paperback, 1994

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Aftermath

Preti Taneja
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Preti Taneja’s Aftermath is one of the best books about experimental literature and the radical, collective politics of abolition that I’ve read recently. You can now check out my review for @WasafiriMag online 🙏🏾 https://t.co/WRnEgNChcF

Paperback, 2021

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney
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"It is a widespread characteristic of colonialism to find agents of repression from among the colonial victims themselves." - Walter Rodney, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa."

Paperback, 2018

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Who Is a Muslim?: Orientalism and Literary Populisms, Maryam Wasif Khan

Who Is a Muslim?: Orientalism and Literary Populisms

Maryam Wasif Khan
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@FawadTariq10 Aamir Mufti, Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures Maryam Khan, Who is a Muslim? Orientalism and Literary Populisms Walter Hakala, Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. Happy reading 🙏🏾

Paperback, 2021

$39.00$19.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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