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snailg0th · 4 years ago

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here’s my giant leftist to-read list for the next few years!!!

if a little (done!) it written next to the book, it means i’ve finished it! i’m gonna try to update this as i read but no promises on remembering haha

Economics/Politics

Property by Karl Marx

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (done!)

Wages, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx (done!)

Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx (done!)

Capital Volume I by Karl Marx

The 1844 Manuscripts by Karl Marx

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Fredrich Engles

Synopsis of Capital by Fredrich Engels

The Principles of Communism by Fredrich Engles

Imperialism, The Highest Stage Of Capitalism by Vladmir Lenin

The State And Revolution by Vladmir Lenin

The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky

Fascism: What is it and How to Fight it by Leon Trotsky

In Defense Of Marxism by Leon Trotsky

The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemborg

Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin

On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

Profit over People by Noam Chomsky

An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory by Ernest Mandel

The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Postmodern Condition by Jean François Lyotard

Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

The Socialist Reconstruction of Society by Daniel De Leon

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Socialism Made Easy by James Connolly

Race

Biased: Uncover in the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji

Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism And The Persistence Of Racial Inequality In America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy And The Racial Divide by Crystal M. Flemming

This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action, And Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For The Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesymn Ward

Class, Race, and Marxism by David R. Roediger

America for Americans: A History Of Xenophobia In The United States by Erica Lee

The Politics Of The Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

A Different Mirror A History Of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki

A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn

Black Theory

The Wretched Of The World by Frantz Fanon

Black Marxism by Cedric J Robinson

Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X

Women, Culture, and Politics by Angela Davis

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis (done!)

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis (done!)

The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Ain’t I A Woman? by Bell Hooks

Yearning by Bell Hooks

Dora Santana’s Works

An End To The Neglect Of The Problems Of The Negro Women by Claudia Jones

I Am Your Sister by Audre Lorde

Women’s Liberation And The African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara

W.E.B. DuBois Essay Collection

Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois

Lynch Law by Ida B. Wells

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Sula by Toni Morrison

Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Paradise by Toni Morrison

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe Moraga

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Black Skins, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Killing of the Black Body

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton

Settlers; The myth of the White Proletariat

Fearing The Black Body; The Racial Origins of Fatphobia

Freedom Dreams; The Black Radical Imagination

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

An Argument For Black Women’s Liberation As a Revolutionary Force by Mary Anne Weathers

Voices of Feminism Oral History Project by Frances Beal

Ghosts In The Schoolyard: Racism And School Closings On Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon To White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, Big Business, Re-create Race In The 21st Century by Dorothy Roberts

We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation by Jeff Chang

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

The Common Wind by Julius S. Scott

Black Is The Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, And Mine by Emily Bernard

We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affects Us and What We Can Do

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life Of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies

Black Studies Manifesto by Darlene Clark

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Souls Of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Darkwater by W.E.B. Du Bois

The Education Of Blacks In The South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Color Of Money: Black Banks And The Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

A Black Women’s History Of The United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross

The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value Of The Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, In The Building Of A Nation by Daina Ramey Berry

North Of Slavery: The Negro In The Free States, 1780-1869 by Leon F. Litwack

Black Stats: African Americans By The Numbers In The Twenty-First Century by Monique M. Morris

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique M. Morris

40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, And Redemption of The Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden

From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

A More Beautiful And Terrible History: The Uses And Misuses Of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present by Harriet A. Washington

Working At The Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework” by Moya Bailey

Theory by Dionne Brand

Black Women, Writing, And Identity by Carole Boyce Davies

Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II by Douglass A. Blackmon

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now by Andre Perry

The Origins Of The Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality In Postwar Detroit by Thomas Surgue

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Essays and Poems by Claudia Jones

The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni McCade

Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances Beal

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Indigenous Theory

Colonize This! by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman

As We Have Always Done

Braiding Sweetgrass

Spaces Between Us

The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen

Native: Identity, Belonging, And Rediscovering God by Kaitlin Curtice

An Indigenous People’s History Of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, And The Pursuit Of Justice For Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga

All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma In The Shadow Of Colonialism by Tanya Talaga

All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward by Tanya Talaga

Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask by Anton Treuer

Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer

Latine Theory

Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage of A Continent by Eduardo Galeano

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez

De Colores Means All Of Us by Elizabeth Martinez

Middle Eastern And Muslim Theory

How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Being Young And Arab In America by Moustafa Bayoumi

We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer

Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat

API Theory

Orientalism by Edward Said

The Making Of Asian America by Erika Lee

On Gold Mountain by Lisa See

Strangers From A Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki

They Called Us Enemy (Graphic Novel) by George Takei

Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by Edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats

Yellow: Race In America Beyond Black And White by Frank H. Wu

Alien Nation: Chinese Migration In The Americas From The Coolie Era Through World War II by Elliott Young

The Good Immigrants: How The Yellow Peril Became The Model Minorities by Madeline H. Ysu

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence Of An American People by Helen Zia

The Myth Of The Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism by Rosalind S. Chou & Joe R. Feagin

Two Faces Of Exclusion: The Untold Story Of Anti-Asian Racism In The United States by Lon Kurashige

Whiteness

White Fragility by Robin Di Angelo (done!)

White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege In A Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman

Waking Up White by Deby Irving

The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son by Tim Wise

White Rage by Carol Anderson

What Does It Mean To Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo

The Invention of The White Race: Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control by Theodore W. Allen

The Invention of The White Race: Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen

Immigration

Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftir

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work by Edwidge Danticat

My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

Voter Suppression

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson

Give Us The Vote: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights In America by Ari Berman

Prison Abolition And Police Violence

Abolition Democracy by Angela Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

The Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis

Political Prisoners, Prisons, And Black Liberation by Angela Davis

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (done!)

The End Of Policing by Alex S Vitale

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie

Choke Hold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler

From The War On Poverty To The War On Crime: The Making Of Mass Incarceration In America by Elizabeth Hinton

Feminist Theory

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

7 Feminist And Gender Theories

Race, Gender, And Class by Margaret L. Anderson

African Gender Studies by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

The Invention Of Women by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

What Gender Is Motherhood? by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty

I Am Malala by Malala Youssef

LGBT Theory

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Performative Acts and Gender Constitution by Judith Butler

Imitation and Gender Insubordination by Judith Butler

Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler

Excitable Speech by Judith Butler

Undoing Gender by Judith Butler

The Roots Of Lesbian And Gay Opression: A Marxist View by Bob McCubbin

Compulsory Heterosexuality And Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich

Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by B. Binohan

Gay.Inc: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics by Merl Beam

Pronouns Good or Bad: Attitudes and Relationships with Gendered Pronouns

Transgender Warriors

Whipping Girl; A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Stone Butch Blues by Lesie Feinberg (done!)

The Stonewall Reader by Edmund White

Sissy by Jacob Tobia

Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein

Butch Queens Up In Pumps by Marlon M. Bailey

Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identities by C Riley Snorton

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley

Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson

#ref #book list #reading list #leftist reading list

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chthonic-cassandra · 6 years ago

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@heavyweightheart said: oh i submit a request for that list!

[re: my self-soothing list of fairy tale adaptations I have read]

Sure! It is highly incomplete, mostly because it leaves out a) adaptations of more obscure stories and b) any short story from a collection I do not own. It also manifestly not a recs list.

Beauty and the Beast & East of the Sun, West of the Moon Beauty, Robin McKinley The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi Beauty and the Beast (animated film) “Beauty and the Beast”, Faerie Tale Theater La Belle et la Bete (film, Cocteau) Cruel Beauty, Rosamund Hodge Beast, Donna Jo Napoli “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” and “The Tiger’s Bride”, Angela Carter “A Moral Tale,” Suniti Namjoshi “The True Bride,” Jim Henson’s The Storyteller

Bluebeard Ariane et Barbe-bleu (play & opera) Bluebeard’s Castle (opera) Fitcher’s Brides, Gregory Frost The Seventh Bride, T. Kingfisher Mr. Fox, Helen Oyeyemi “Bluebeard’s Egg,” Margaret Atwood “The Bloody Chamber,” Angela Carter Bluebeard (film) The Piano (film, Campion) “A Room of His Own,” Suniti Namjoshi

Cinderella Ash, Malinda Lo Bound, Donna Jo Napoli Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire Just Ella, Margaret Peterson Haddix Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine Cinderella (animated film) Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (three filmed versions, stage) “Cinderella”, Faerie Tale Theater Cinderella (ballet) “Princess in Puce,” Annita Harlan “The Stepsister’s Story,” Emma Bull “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep,” Ellen Kushner Ever After (film)

Donkeyskin Deerskin, Robin McKinley “Allerleirauh,” Jane Yolen “Donkeyskin,” Terri Windling

The Frog Prince The Prince of the Pond, Donna Jo Napoli The Princess and the Frog (animated film)

Hansel and Gretel The Magic Circle, Donna Jo Napoli Hansel and Gretel (opera) “Hansel and Gretel,” Faerie Tale Theater

Jack and the Beanstalk Crazy Jack, Donna Jo Napoli “Jack and the Beanstalk,” Faerie Tale Theater

Koschei the Deathless Firebird (ballet) Firebird, Mercedes Lackey Deathless, Catherynne M Valente Koschey the Deathless (opera)

The Little Mermaid (and related stories) The Seafarer’s Kiss, Julia Ember The Little Mermaid (animated film) “The Little Mermaid,” Faerie Tale Theater The Brides of Rollrock Island, Margo Lanagan Sirena, Donna Jo Napoli “The Pangs of Love,” Jane Gardam

Little Red Riding Hood Crimson Bound, Rosamund Hodge Red Riding Hood, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright “The Werewolf” & “The Company of Wolves,” Angela Carter The Company of Wolves (film, Jordan) “Little Red Riding Hood”, Faerie Tale Theater “Case History,” Suniti Namjoshi

Pied Piper of Hamelin Breath, Donna Jo Napoli “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” Faerie Tale Theater

The Princess and the Pea The Princess Test, Gail Carson Levine “The Princess and the Pea,” Faerie Tale Theater “The Princess,” Suniti Namjoshi The Princess and the Pea (film, Russian)

Puss-in-Boots “Puss-in-Boots,” Angela Carter “Puss-in-Boots,” Faerie Tale Theater

Rapunzel Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale Zel, Donna Jo Napoli “Rapunzel,” Faerie Tale Theater Tangled (animated film)

Rumplestiltskin The Rumplestilskin Problem, Vivian Vande Velde Spinners, Donna Jo Napoli and Richard Tchen “Rumplestiltskin,” Faerie Tale Theater

Scheherazade (Arabian Nights frametale) The Wrath and the Dawn & The Rose and the Dagger, Renee Ahdieh A Thousand Nights, E. K. Johnston Voices of the Desert, Nelida Pinon Wishing Moon, Michael O. Tunnell The Storyteller’s Daughter, Cameron Dokey Shadow Spinner, Susan Fletcher The Arabian Nights (tv miniseries)

Seven Swans Swan Lake (ballet) Swan Princess (animated film) The Black Swan, Mercedes Lackey “The Three Raven,” Jim Henson’s The Storyteller

Sleeping Beauty Spindle, E. K. Johnston Sleeping Beauty (ballet) Sleeping Beauty (animated film) Spindle’s End, Robin McKinley Briar Rose, Jane Yolen Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep, Gail Carson Levine “Sleeping Beauty,” Faerie Tale Theater The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty & c, Anne Rice “She Sleeps in a Tower,” Tanith Lee “Briar Rose,” Anne Sexton

The Snow Maiden The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey “The Snow Child,” Angela Carter

The Snow Queen Bread Crumbs, Anne Ursu The Snow Queen (tv miniseries) The Snow Queen, Joan D. Vinge “The Snow Queen,” Faerie Tale Theater

Snow White & the Seven Dwarves Girls Made of Snow and Glass, Melissa Bashardoust Dark Shimmer, Donna Jo Napoli Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi Snow in Summer, Jane Yolen Six-Gun Snow White, Catherynne M Valente Fairest of All, Serena Valentino Mirror, Mirror, Gregory Maguire White as Snow, Tanith Lee Fairest, Gail Carson Levine Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (animated film) “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,” Faerie Tale Theater “Snow White to the Prince,” Delia Sherman Snow White: The Fairest of the Them All (tv miniseries)

Snow White & Rose Red Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan

Thomas the Rhymer & Tam Lin Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner Winter Rose, Patricia A McKillip Fire and Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones Tam Lin, Pamela Dean The Perilous Guard, Marie Elizabeth Pope

The Twelve Dancing Princesses The Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine Speak Easy, Catherynne M Valente Wildwood Dancing, Juliet Marillier “The Twelve Dancing Princesses,” Faerie Tale Theater

Vassilissa the Beautiful Vassa in the Night, Sarah Porter The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden

#fairy tales #heavyweightheart

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