Radical Library

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing lays the groundwork for understanding how the past has influenced the present, and opens up the discussion of how we can use the strengths we have gained to heal.

By: Angela Y. Davis

In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.

Question Bridge assembles a series of questions posed to black men, by and for other black men, along with the corresponding responses and portraits of the participants. The questions range from the comic to the sublimely philosophical: from Am I the only one who has problems eating chicken, watermelon, and bananas in front of white people? to Why is it so difficult for black American men in this culture to be themselves, their essential selves, and remain who they truly are?

By: Michelle Wallace

Black Macho and The Myth of the Superwoman are two book length essays in one publication written in 1978. In Black Macho, black feminist Michelle Wallace takes what she saw as the hyper-masculine Black Power Movement to task. Controversial in its time (and some of her views have changed since publication) she uses Black Macho and The Myth of the Superwoman, to tackle the perspective of black women in the Black liberation movement.

By: Régis Debray

"A brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare and revolution, read alongside Che's own pamphlets, with which it can complete in terms insight to this day..."