In this episode, we speak to Brent of Rad Reads, a youtube channel where discussions of radical texts takes center stage.
Readings & Resources
Audio/Video:
Rad Reads: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJFDSgzcZsjOi8XnWD2TlKg
-Review: Blood in My Eye by George Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_b-0ab5ljE
-Discussion: Struggling with Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJdHNl4zcs
-Other Media:
Twitter: RadreadsB
Instagram: radreads94
Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/72413401-brent
Marxist Paul -”Wretched of the Earth with Rad Reads”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idDDjC9ZlYA
Louis Allday - Liberated Texts: https://liberatedtexts.com/
Louis Allday - “Our Enemies Know the Power of Books” (Interview) - Millennials are Killing Capitalism Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/anticapitalist-millennials/our-enemies-know-the-power-of
Left POCket Project Podcast - “Combahee River Collective Statement” (Reading Revolution Discussion): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/47-combahee-river-collective-statement-readingrevolution/id1329313097?i=1000489874990
Books/Essays/Articles
H. Rap Brown - Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
Frantz Fanon - Wretched of the Earth (Constance Farrington Translation)
James Yaki Sayles - Meditations on Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings
George Jackson - Blood in My Eye
Robin D. G. Kelley - Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
Aimé Césaire - Discourse on Colonalism
J. Moufawad-Paul - Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain
Harry Haywood - Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
Hakim Adi - Pan-Africanism: A History
Edward Onaci - Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State
Sanyika Shakur - Stand Up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy
Toni Morrison:
Playing in the Dark
The Bluest Eye
Sula
Dan Berger - ““Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika”
https://www.aaihs.org/free-the-land-fifty-years-of-the-republic-of-new-afrika/
Atiba Shanna - “On Captured Citizens, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of War: a New Afrikan Perspective http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/Republic_of_New_Afrika/513.RNA.Atiba.Shanna.On.Captured.Citizens.pdf
Additional Authors Mentioned:
Gloria Naylor
Ursula K. Le Guin
Octavia Butler
Walter Rodney
Gerald Horne