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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 635,716 ratings — published 2012
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as activist)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,506 ratings — published 2017
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as activist)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,740 ratings — published 2019
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.51 — 20,085 ratings — published 1981
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,010 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,623 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as activist)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,883 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 116,669 ratings — published 2017
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.32 — 279,108 ratings — published 2025
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,278 ratings — published 2022
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,755 ratings — published 2020
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,073 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,340 ratings — published 2015
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 297,846 ratings — published 1965
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.56 — 71,559 ratings — published 2025
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,055 ratings — published 1845
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.44 — 37,289 ratings — published 2015
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.50 — 185,896 ratings — published 2013
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.55 — 128,265 ratings — published 1963
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.69 — 41,847 ratings — published 2021
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,264 ratings — published 1980
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,505 ratings — published 2020
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 27,507 ratings — published 1997
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.37 — 101,951 ratings — published 2017
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,048 ratings — published 2014
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,216 ratings — published 2019
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,266 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.39 — 339,148 ratings — published 2012
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as activist)
avg rating 4.31 — 289,373 ratings — published 1979
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.13 — 527,887 ratings — published 2022
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,528,992 ratings — published 1985
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,108 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.33 — 179,189 ratings — published 2019
Revenge of the Tipping Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.02 — 64,979 ratings — published 2024
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.12 — 136,899 ratings — published 2025
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,689,811 ratings — published 1948
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,351 ratings — published 2024
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.34 — 24,401 ratings — published 1986
Laut Bercerita (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.60 — 27,285 ratings — published 2017
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.61 — 25,575 ratings — published 2019
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,107 ratings — published 2023
Indigo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,627 ratings — published 1996
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.10 — 103,067 ratings — published 2023
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,219 ratings — published 2024
Antiracist Baby (Board Book)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,055 ratings — published 2020
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,716 ratings — published 2024
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,257 ratings — published 2017
Sometimes People March (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.35 — 657 ratings — published 2020
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,740 ratings — published 2018
Like a Love Story (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as activist)
avg rating 4.26 — 16,212 ratings — published 2019
“Either burn me, or burn with me, I want neither sheep nor mice. Body born of mud dissolves in mud, one person's sacrifice jolts a planet back to life.”
― Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
― Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human
“The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered the construction of any one ideology as the single most correct site where truth can be represented. Indeed, without making this kind of metamove, any 'liberation' or social movement eventually becomes destined to repeat the oppressive authoritarianism from which it is attempting to free itself, and become trapped inside a drive for truth that ends only in producing its own brand of dominations. What U.S. third world feminism thus demanded was a new subjectivity, a political revision that denied any one ideology as the final answer, while instead positing a tactical subjectivity with the capactiy to de- and recenter, given the forms of power to be moved. These dynamics are what were required in the shift from enacting a hegemonic oppositional theory and practice to engaging in the differential form of social movement, as performed by U.S. feminists of color during the post-World War II period of great social transformation. p. 58-59. ”
― Methodology of the Oppressed
― Methodology of the Oppressed
