✿ donations ✿

We are grateful for donations to cover book purchases + operating costs. All donations will go directly back in to the Library!

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We accept book donations and are looking for books that focus on radical imaginaries, black liberation, abolitionist visions, habits of assembly, insurgent learning, friendship, world-building, indigenous knowledges, queerness, ethnic studies, gender studies, performance studies, and freedom dreams. If you want to buy a specific book for the library, we have a wishlist below. Due to space constraints, we may not be able to add all donations to our catalog, and we will donate or sell other books to support the Library.

wishlist

what could be called nonfiction : : : 

• Ahmed, Sara - The Cultural Politics of Emotions 

• Ahmed, Sara - The Promise of Happiness

• Baldwin, James - Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

• Bey, Hakim - The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism  

• Brown, Wendy - States of Injury

• Chomsky, Noam, Meyer, Lois (ed.), Alvarado, Benjamín Maldonado (ed.) - New World of Indigeneous Resistance   

• Chuh, Kandice - The Difference Aesthetics Makes

• Crawley, Ashon - The Lonely Letters

• Davis, Angela - If They Come in the Morning, Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis: An Autobiography, Blues Legacies and Black Feminisms

• Davis, Mike - City of Quartz

• Davis, Mike and Wiener, Jon - Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

• Delany, Samuel - *Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

• Delany, Samuel - The Motion of Light in Water

• Gilmore, Ruth Wilson - Golden Gulag

• Kelley, Robin D.G. Kelley - Freedom Dreams   

• Edwards, Erica - Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership

• Esteva, Gustavo & Prakash, Madhu Suri - Grassroot Post-modernism: remaking the soil of cultures      

• Foucault, Michel - Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews   

• Fisher, Mark - *Capitalist Realism 

• Freire, Paulo - *Pedagogy of the Oppressed, *Teachers as Cultural Workers

• Freire, Paulo and Horton, Myles - *We Make the Road by Walking

• Gaye Theresea (ed.) and Lubin, Alex (ed.) - Futures of Black Radicalism

• Gilmore, Ruth Wilson - Golden Gulag

• Gladman, Renee - Prose Architectures, Ravicka Novels (Event Factory, The Ravickians, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge, Houses of Ravicka)

• Glissant, Edouard - *Poetics of Relation

• Gordon, Avery - Letters from the Utopian Margins

• Green, Renée - Other Planes of There: Selected Writings

• Harney, Stefano and Moten, Fred - *The Undercommons 

• Hartman, Saidiya - *Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Scenes of Subjection

• Hilal, Sandi and Petti, Allesendro - Architecture After Revolution 

• hooks, bell - *Teaching to Transgress   

• Illich, Ivan - *Deschooling Society, Tools for Conviviality      

• Keeling, Kara - Queer Times, Black Futures, The Witch's Flight

• King, Tiffany Lethabo (ed.), Navarro, Janell (ed.), Smith, Andrea (ed.) - Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness

• Lewis, Tyson - Inoperative Learning: A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities

• Linebaugh, Peter and Rediker, Marcus - The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, 

• Lipsitz, George - The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

• Lorde, Audre - Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Uses of the Erotic: the erotic as power

• Lowe, Lisa - *The Intimacies of Four Continents

• Mackey, Nathaniel - Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing, Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews 

• Melamed, Jodi - Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism

• Moten, Fred - In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, *Black and Blur, Stolen Life, The Universal Machine

• Mottel, Syeus - *The Improbable Dome Builders

• Munoz, José - *Cruising Utopia, Disidentifications   

• Nancy, Jean-Luc - The Inoperative Community

• Perry, Imani - Vexy Thing

• Rickford, Russell - We Are an African People   

• Robbins, Bruce - The Beneficiary 

• Robinson, Cedric - Black Marxism, The Terms of Order

• Scott, Julius - The Common Wind      

• Shakur, Assata - Assata: An Autobiography

• Sharpe, Christina - In the Wake

• Tsing, Anna - *The Mushroom at the End of the World

• White, Simone - Dear Angel of Death

• Wilderson III, Frank - Incognegro, Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of US Antagonisms, Afropessimism

• Williams, Raymond - Marxism and Literature

• Williamson, Terrion - Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life

• Wojnawrociz, David - Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

• Zibechi, Raul - Dispersing Power

poetry + fiction : : : 

• Brooks, Gwendolyn - Black Love, Riot, Aloneness, Report from Part One: An Autobiography

• Baldwin, James — anything!

• Butler, Octavia - The Parable of the Sower; Kindred

• Conrad, CA - Ecodeviance : (soma)tics for the future wilderness, Deviant Propulsion

• Dumas, Henry - Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas, Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

• Hemphill, Essex - Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry, Conditions: Poems

• Keene, John - Annotations

• Lorde, Audre - Cables to Rage, Between Our Selves, The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

• Mackey, Nathaniel - *From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, Splay Anthem, Four for Trane, Nod House

• Morrison, Toni — anything!

• Roberson, Ed - To See the Earth Before the End of the World, Atmospheric conditions, City Eclogue

• Sanchez, Sonia - Like the Singing Coming Off of Drums, Continuous Fire: A Collection of Poetry, Wounded in the House of a Friend

• Soldier, Layli Long - Whereas 

• Walker, Margaret - This is My Century: New and Collected Poems, Jubilee, For My People

• Ward, Jesmyn - Sing, Unburied, Sing

• White, Simone - Of Being Dispersed

*indicates books already in the library that we are eager to have more copies of!