Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on X
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown. Author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture, @cpluscp member. Not on here much these days, email away
Capitalism And Slavery
Williams EricOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòsome classics if you're into thinking about this sort of thing: Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery, CLR James' The Black Jacobins, the Hobsbawm histories. for today, @VersoBooks is putting out "Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Learning from the Movements that Won", highly recommend
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter RodneyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@23Mjoshi Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery are classics of the genre. Debates about the latter are informative (see Barbara Solow's work). Important additions are Flynn and Giraldez's articles about the global silver trade...
Paperback, 2018
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani PerryOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòa review by @loggins__ on two recent books by fellow Southerners: Adolph L. Reed Jr.’s The South and Imani Perry’s South to America https://t.co/hkTpfeHFJ9
Paperback, 2023
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Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchial Tendencies of Modern Democracy
Robert MichelsOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò"No one seriously engaged in historical studies can have failed to perceive that...The hereditary transmission of political power has always been the most efficacious means of maintaining class rule." - Robert Michels, "Political Parties"
Paperback, 2023
$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven PinkerOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò"Beyond this, the historical narrative which frames these extrapolations – combining uncut technological determinism and the triumph of liberal values – is reminiscent of the Panglossian optimism of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now."
Paperback, 2019
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Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
Kate AronoffOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@tridatta1 ahh sucks! Kate Aronoff's book Overheated is on Audible,highly worth a read. White Skin, Black Fuel may be as well
Hardcover, 2021
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No Name in the Street
James BaldwinOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò“...the truth is a two-edged sword – and if one is not willing to be pierced by that sword, even to the extreme of dying on it, then all of one’s intellectual activity is a masturbatory illusion and a dangerous fraud.” - James Baldwin, "No Name in the Street"
Paperback, 2007
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Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: South Carolina
U S Bureau of the CensusOlúfẹ́mi O. TáíwòHere's a related writeup on a study from University of Maryland: "Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the United States are arrested by age 23" https://t.co/HCxfbG8EWJ
Paperback, 2013
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The Republic
PlatoOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò"In Book II of Plato’s Republic, Socrates seeks out the ‘justice of one man’ by examining the role of justice in the city...It is no wonder that, when Julius Nyerere died in 1999, he was translating The Republic into Swahili." - @dtsuell https://t.co/XMeC119Tr1
Hardcover, 2023
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Afropessimism
Frank B. WildersonOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò"...or Lacanians anxious to read any pushback as the outcome of unconscious repression, there is no way to test it except on the terms that it has itself provided." - Nick Mitchell in "The View From Nowhere: On Frank Wilderson's Afropessimism", for @JournalSpectre. still golden
Paperback, 2021
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