R.I.P. (Rest in PDFs), Part I
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Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics. Translated from the French by Libby Meintjes.
Achille Mbembe, The Power of the Archive and its Limits. Translated from the French by Judith Inggs
Adrienne Rich, Woman and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism. Translated from the French by Joan Pinkham.
Aimé Césaire, Letter to Maurice Thorez. Translated from the French by Chike Jeffers.
Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. Translated from the French by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the introduction to M Archive: After the End of the World
Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
All Monuments Must Fall: A Syllabus, created/crowd-sourced by Nicholas Mirzoeff and many others
Amilcar Cabral, Return to the Source: Selected Speeches
Amy Uyematsu, The Emergence of Yellow Power
Andaiye, Counting Women’s Caring Work: an interview with David Scott
Angela Davis, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture
Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Davis, Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition
Angela Davis, Women, Race, Class
Angel Dominguez, Black Lavender Milk
Angie Morrill, Eve Tuck, and the Super Futures Haunt Qollective, Before Dispossession, or Surviving It
Anne Anlin Cheng, The Melancholy of Race
Anne Anlin Cheng, Ornamentalism: A Feminist Theory for the Yellow Woman
Anne Boyer, No, from A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
Antonio Gramsci, The Gramsci Reader: Selected Writings 1916-1935
Asian American Feminist Antibodies {care in the time of coronavirus}, a zine by Asian American Feminist Collective, in collaboration with Bluestockings NYC,
Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
Audra Simpson, On Ethnographic Refusal: Indigeneity, ‘Voice’ and Colonial Citizenship
Audre Lorde, I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities
Audre Lorde, Poetry is Not a Luxury
Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger
Aufgabe, Number 4, Fall 2004, feat. Japanese poetry in translation guest edited by Sawako Nakayasu
Aufgabe, Number 13, 2014, feat. poetry in translation from India guest edited by Biswamit Dwibedy & a special section of poetry from the Moroccan journal Souffles
Bayard Rustin, “Black Power” and Coalition Politics
bell hooks, all about love: New Visions
bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation
bell hooks, Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics
bell hooks, Feminist Theory from margin to center
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Bhanu Kapil, Reading Lauren Berlant in the Bath
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
Calvin Warren, Black Care
Calvin Warren, the introduction to Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
Carrie Lorig, The Book of Repulsive Women: Five Increasing / Rhythms
Cathlin Goulding, Walking the Places of Exception: The Tule Lake National Monument
Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
Chela Sandoval, Methodology of the Oppressed
Christina Sharpe, Kara Walker’s Monstrous Intimacies (from Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects)
Christina Sharpe, The Wake (the first chapter of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being).
Clarice Lispector, The Egg and the Chicken. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
Claudia Jones, An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman
David J. Getsy and Che Gossett, A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History
David L. Eng, The Value of Silence
Denise Ferreira da Silva, On Difference Without Separability
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Toward a Black Feminist Poethics
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Toward a Global Idea of Race
Diana Taylor, The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters
Dionne Brand, An Ars Poetica from the Blue Clerk
Divya Victor, Ten Little Poets
Divya Victor, from Things To Do With Your Mouth
Dot Devota, T H E D O G W O O D S
dusie 19: The Asian Anglophone issue (edited by Cynthia Arrieu-King)
Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays. Translated from the French by J. Michael Dash.
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. Translated from the Spanish by Cedric Belfrage
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism
E.J. Koh, the opening pages of The Magical Language of Others
Elizabeth Castle, “The Original Gangster”: The Life and Times of Red Power Activist Madonna Thunder Hawk
Elizabeth Grosz, Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power
Ellen Wu, Imperatives of Asian American Citizenship (intro to The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority)
Epeli Hau’ofa, Our Sea of Islands
Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, editors, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Errico Malatesta, The Anarchist Revolution: Polemical Articles 1924-1931
Etel Adnan, At Two in the Afternoon. Translated from the French by Sarah Riggs.
Etel Adnan, all the questions in Sitt Marie Rose. From Georgina Kleege’s translation from the original French.
Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose. Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege.
Etel Adnan, To Be In A Time Of War
Eunsong Kim, Appraising Newness: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and the Building of the Archive for New Poetry
Eunsong Kim, Copy Paper: Ream 1
Eunsong Kim, Dear Machines
Eunsong Kim, Found, Found, Found: Lived, Lived, Lived
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, R-Words: Refusing Research
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, What Justice Wants
Fay Chiang, excerpts from 7 Continents, 9 Lives
Frank B. Wilderson III, The Prison Slave As Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal
Frank B. Wilderson III, Sideways Between Stories
Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks. Translated from the French by Charles Lam Markmann.
Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier
Frantz Fanon, Toward the African Revolution. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. Translated from the French by Richard Philcox.
Frederick Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Fred Moten, Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)
Fred Moten, In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Gary Okihiro, Is Yellow Black or White?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?
Gelare Khoshgozaran, Airgrams
George Jackson, Blood In My Eye
George Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters
Georges Bataille, The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism. Translated from the French by Michael Richardson.
Georges Bataille, The Bataille Reader
Georges Bataille, Blue of Noon. Translated from the French by Harry Mathews
Georges Bataille, Inner Experience
Ginger Ko, Ghosts, Models, Visions
Glen Coulthard, Red Skin White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Grace Lee Boggs, Living for Change: An Autobiography
Grace Lee Boggs, Reimagine Everything
Indefensible: A Decade of Mass Incarceration of Migrants Prosecuted for Crossing the Border. By Judith A. Greene, Bethany Carson, Andrea Black, for Grassroots Leadership and Justice Strategies (2016).
Haunani-Kay Trask, The Color of Violence
Hélène Cixous, Stigmata. Multiple translators.
Hiromi Itō, The Thorn-Puller: New Tales of the Jizō Statue at Sugamo. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles.
Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture
Hortense Spillers, All the Things You Could be by Now, If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother: Psychoanalysis and Race
Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide
The Huey P. Newton Reader. Edited by David Hilliard and Donald Weise
Immigration and Nationality Act, June 27, 1952. See especially SEC. 212: General Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas and Excluded from Admission
#ImmigrationSyllabus. Created by immigration historians affiliated with the Immigration History Research Center and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, January 26, 2017
J. Sakai, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
Jackie Wang, Against Innocence: Race, Gender, & The Politics of Safety
Jackie Wang, On Being Hard Femme
Jackie Wang, Policing as Plunder: Notes on Municipal Finance and the Political Economy of Fees and Fines, from Carceral Capitalism
Jacques Derrida, The Work of Mourning
Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference. Translated from the French by Alan Bass
Jalal Toufic, Undeserving Lebanon
Jalal Toufic, The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (essay)
James Baldwin, Nothing Personal
James Boggs, Pages From a Black Radical’s Notebook
Jean-Claude Michel, The Black Surrealists
Jean Genet, Four Hours in Shatila
Jennifer C. Nash, Feeling Black Feminism, the introduction to Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Notes from a Missing Person
Jennifer Tamayo, Poems are the Only Real Bodies
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
John Gregory Dunne, Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike
Jose Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses
Joy James, The Dead Zone: Stumbling at the Crossroads of Party Politics, Genocide, and Postracial Racism
Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
Julietta Singh, No Archive Will Restore You
Julietta Singh, the introduction to Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements
Kamau Brathwaite, History of the Voice (from Roots)
Kamau Brathwaite, Nation Language
Karen Tei Yamashita, Literature as Community: The Turtle, Imagination & the Journey Home
Katherine McKittrick, the acknowledgments of and introduction to Dear Science and Other Stories
Katherine McKittrick, Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle
Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Chapter 7 of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keguro Macharia, Queering African Studies
The Kojiki: Record of Ancient Matters. Translated from the Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain
Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
Lara Mimosa Montes, from The Somnambulist
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, and K. Wayne Yang, Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education
Lisa Lowe, History Hesitant
Lisa Lowe, Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique (from Immigrant Acts)
Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents
Loss: The Politics of Mourning. (eds. David L. Eng & David Kazanjian)
Lynn Xu, Say You Will Die For Me
Mae Ngai, From Colonial Subject to Undesirable Alien: Filipino Migration, Exclusion, and Repatriation, 1920-1940
Mae Ngai, Illegal Aliens: A Problem of Law and History (intro to Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America)
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Manifesto: A Century of Isms, edited by Mary Ann Caws
The Manyōshū, the Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai translatton
Mariame Kaba, Toward the Horizon of Abolition: John Duda in conversation with Kaba
Marianne Hirsch, The Generation of Postmemory
Marianne Hirsch and Nancy K. Miller, the introduction to Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory
Mari Matsuda, Planet Asian America
Mari Matsuda, Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim’s Story
Mark Rifkin, Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
Mathias Svalina, Seventeen Graveyards: Histories/Descriptions of Some U.S. States
Mercedes Eng, Mercenary English
Merle Woo, Stonewall Was a Riot—Now We Need a Revolution
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire
Michel Foucault, The Care of the Self (Volume 3 of The History of Sexuality). Translated from the French by Robert Hurley
Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth: The Problematization of Parrhesia
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, The Otherwise Modern: Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, The Power in the Story
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, An Unthinkable History: The Haiti Revolution as a Non-Event
Mimi Thi Nguyen, The Empire of Freedom (the introduction to The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages)
Mishuana Goeman, Gendered Geographies and Narrative Markings; “Remember What You Are”: Gendering Citizenship, the Indian Act, and (Re)mapping the Settler Nation-State, from Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations
Mitsuye Yamada, Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman
M. Jacqui Alexander, Remembering This Bridge Called My Back, Remembering Ourselves
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