Books like The man-not by Tommy J. Curry

African-American fiction

Michel Foucault’s seminal work traces the evolution of punishment and surveillance, revealing how modern societies exercise power through disciplinary institutions such as prisons, schools, and hospitals.

A critique of policing that examines its historical expansion and proposes alternatives such as drug legalization and harm reduction to reduce crime and injustice.

Beverly Daniel Tatum invites readers to stop avoiding tough conversations about race and instead engage directly with the realities of racial identity and segregation, offering concrete tools to foster understanding and equity in schools, workplaces, and families.

bell hooks’ essays in Black Looks critique traditional narratives, interrogating how blackness, race, and gender are represented in media and culture, urging readers to rethink spectatorship and the politics of representation.

Cornel West’s Race Matters delivers a penetrating examination of racism, black consciousness, and civil society in the United States, offering essays that remain timely and relevant for every reader in the new millennium.

"In the Hip Hop Underground and African American Culture, Peterson explores a variety of 'underground' concepts at the intersections of African American literature and Hip Hop Culture. From the Underground Railroad to black holes or from kiln holes to solitary confinement, this project makes meaningful connections across multiple iterations of Black concepts of the underground. Since socially conscious Hip Hop music inherits much of its socio-political and figurative significance from the Black underground it functions as a logical recurring subject matter for this study--situated at Black cultural and conceptual crossroads"--

A collection of bell hooks’s essays from the 1980s that intertwine cultural criticism, pedagogy, and politics to challenge oppression and explore race, gender, and identity.

"African American Communication: Exploring Identity and Culture begins an important dialogue in communication, intercultural studies, African American studies, and other fields concerned with the centrality of culture and communication as it relates to human behavior. It is intended for advanced students and scholars in intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, and communication theory; African American/Black studies; social psychology; sociolinguistics; education; and family studies."--BOOK JACKET.

To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date."--pub. desc.

A revolutionary text by Frantz Fanon, providing insight into the fight for freedom and national culture in decolonization era.