Below are texts and other resources of potential interest to the discussion group. Because the subject of race treason often involves white people engaging with Black and Indigenous thought, the following list is also intended to encourage more direct readings of Black and Indigenous authors.
The list is in alphabetical order by author. Check back as the list is continuously expanded.
Aarons, K.
“No Selves To Abolish: Afropessimism, Anti-Politics and the End of the World” (2016)
Ahmad, Muhammed
World Black Revolution (1966)
Alfred, Taiaiake
Peace, Power, Righteousness (1999)
Allen, Robert
Black Awakening in Capitalist America (1990)
Allen, Theodore
The Invention of the White Race Vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994)
The Invention of the White Race Vol. 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)
Akuno, Kali
Navigating the Storm blog here.
Andaiye
The Point Is To Change The World (2020)
Anonymous
“Betraying the White Race in the 21st Century” (2023)
“Race and Border: The Two-Headed Ogre of White Supremacy” (2009)
Arnall, Gavin
Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change (2020)
Balagoon, Kuwasi
A Soldier’s Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist (2001)
Baldwin, James
“On Being ‘White’ and Other Lies” (1984)
Bambara, Toni Cade
The Black Woman (1970)
Bey, Marquis
Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism (2020)
“A Conversation with Marquis Bey” (2021)
Black Trans Feminism (2022)
“Impossible Life” (2023)
Boggs, James
The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker’s Notebook (1963)
Carr, James
Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr (1975)
Chandler, Nahum
X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought (2014))
Chen, Chris
“The Limit Point Of Capitalist Equality: Notes toward an abolitionist antiracism” (2013)
City Inhospitable
“Talk Amongst Yourselves: From White Guilt to Race Traitors” (2021)
Clegg, John
“In Praise of Treason” (2023)
Committee for Territorial Defense and Decolonization
Forests: The Past Foretold (2021)
Excerpt: “Halting Mass Deforestation: Paths Toward a Decolonial Revolution”
Coulthard, Glen S.
Red Skin White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (2014)
Crawley, Ashon T.
Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (2016)
Croatoan
“Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation” (2012)
Cruse, Harold
Rebellion or Revolution? (2009)
da Silva, Denise Ferreira
“On Difference Without Separability” (2016)
Toward A Global Idea of Race (2007)
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Black Reconstruction (1935)
Ervin, Lorenzo Komboa
Anarchism and the Black Revolution (1979)
“Back From Hell: Black Power And Treason To Whiteness Inside Prison Walls” (1994)
Fanon, Frantz
A Dying Colonialism (1965)
Black Skin White Masks (1955)
The Wretched of the Earth (1962)
Fields, Barbara Jeanne and Karen E. Fields
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (2012)
Excerpt: “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America”
Gelderloos, Peter
“Whiteness is a War Measure” (2022)
Georgakas, Dan and Marvin Surkin
Detroit I Do Mind Dying: A Study In Urban Revolution (1975)
Gilroy, Paul
Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (2000)
Haider, Asad
Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (2018)
“White Purity” (2017)
Harris, Cheryl I.
“Whiteness As Property” (1993)
Hartman, Saidiya
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007)
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (1997)
Haywood, Harry
Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist (1978)
hooks, bell
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981)
Ignatiev, Noel
“Black Worker, White Worker” (1972)
“Good Kid. Don’t Say Much” (2021)
How The Irish Became White (1995)
“The Point Is Not to Interpret Whiteness, but to Abolish It” (1997)
with John Garvey, Beth Henson, et al, Race Traitor (1993–2005)
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded (2007)
Indigenous Action
“Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing The Ally Industrial Complex” (2014)
“Make it Impossible for This System to Govern on Stolen Land” (2016)
Jackson, George
Blood In My Eye (1972)
Soledad Brother (1970)
Jacobs, Harriet
Incidents In The Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
James, C.L.R.
The Black Jacobins (1938)
James, Joy
Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani
“A Structure, Not an Event: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity” (2016)
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013)
Koerner, Michelle
“Lines of Escape: Gilles Deleuze’s Encounter with George Jackson” (2011)
Lee, Meredith
“bell hooks and Wayward Immobility” (2022)
Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker
Lynd, Staughton
“Black and White and Dead All Over: The Lucasville Insurrection” (1998)
Lyons, Scott Richard
X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent (2010)
Marriott, David
On Black Men (2000)
Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being (2018)
Marshall, Yannick Giovanni
“An Appeal: Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History” (2020)
“Black Liberal, Your Time is Up” (2020)
Mbembe, Achille
Critique of Black Reason (2017)
Necropolitics (2019)
McKittrick, Katherine
“Rebellion/Invention/Groove” (2016)
Means, Russel
“For America To Live Europe Must Die” (1980)
Meeks, Eric V.
Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona (2007)
Moten, Fred
In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (2003)
Stolen Life (2018)
The Universal Machine (2018)
with Stefano Harney, All Incomplete (2021)
Excerpt: “Plantocracy and Communism”
with Stefano Harney, The Undercommons (2013)
Nemser, Daniel
Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico (2017)
Nevada
The Abolition of Law (2022)
Excerpt: “In The Wake of an Erosion”
with Jackson, “Sideshows and Wayward Lives” (2022)
Newton, Huey
“Intercommunalism” (1974)
Revolutionary Suicide (1973)
“The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements” (1970)
Olsen, Joel
The Abolition Of White Democracy (2006)
Osterweil, Vicky
In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action (2020)
Pexa, Christopher J.
Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte (2019)
Ranney, David
“Challenging the White Blindspot” (2022)
Robinson, Cedric J.
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (1983)
Black Movements In America (1997)
The Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership (1980)
Robinson, Dean E.
Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought (2001)
Robinson, Idris
“How It Might Should Be Done” (2020) (Video)
“Letter to Michael Reinoehl” (2020)
“On Race Traitors, Identity Politics, and Revolutionary Horizons Since the Uprising” (2022)
Rodney, Walter
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972)
Roediger, David R.
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991)
Salam, Shemon
“Fanon, Floyd, and Me” (2021)
“Race and Organization after the George Floyd Uprising” (2022)
with Arturo Castillon, The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising (2021)
with Arturo Castillon, “The Return of John Brown: White Race-Traitors in the 2020 Uprising” (2020)
Saldanha, Arun
Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race (2007)
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa
The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (2018)
Shakur, Assata
Assata (1987)
Shanahan, Jarrod
“Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help” (2022)
Shirley, Neal & Saralee Stafford
Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South (2015)
Shoatz, Russel Maroon
Maroon The Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russel Maroon Shoatz (2013)
Excerpt: “The Dragon and the Hydra: A Historical Study of Organizational Methods”
Excerpt: “The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America”
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (2017)
Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence (2011)
Singh, Nikhil Pal and Thuy Linh Tu
“Morbid Capitalism and its racial symptoms” (2018)
Spillers, Hortense J.
“Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” (1987)
“The Idea of Black Culture” (2006)
Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) (2022)
Excerpt: “Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference”
Tawinikay
“Settlers on the Red Road: A Conversation on Indigeneity, Belonging, and Responsibility” (2021)
Various
Afro-pessimism: An Introduction (2017)
Beyond Guilt and Privilege: Abolishing the White Race (2020)
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg (2021)
Futures of the Black Radicalism (2017)
Vasquez, Delio
“Illegalist Foucault, Criminal Foucault” (2020)
“The Poor Person’s Defense of Riots” (2014)
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo
Cannibal Metaphysics (2014)
Warren, Calvin
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (2018)
We Still Outside
“On the Black Leadership and Other White Myths” (2020)
West, Cornell
“Philosophy and the Afro-American Experience” (1977)
Whittaker, Nicholas
“Case Sensitive: Why We Shouldn’t Capitalize ‘Black’” (2021)
“Elite Capture (Review)” (2022)
Wilderson, Frank B.
Afropessimism (2020)
Incongnegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (2008)
Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (2010)
Williams, Eric
Capitalism & Slavery (1944)
Williams, Robert F.
Negroes With Guns (1962)
Wohlleben, Adrian
“Memes Without End” (2021)
Wolfe, Patrick
Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (2016)
Wynter, Sylvia
“1492: A New World View” (1995)
“No Humans Involved” (1994)
Edited by Katherine McKittrick, Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (2015)
X, Malcolm