Books in the Black Critique series

'Phenomenal ... Offers us possibilities for rescuing the concept of democracy from its fatal entanglement with racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism'-Angela Y. Davis'Embraces the unruliness of collective struggle, and recognizes freedom not as a destination but practice-an abolitionist, feminist, anticapitalist, antiracist, radically inclusive practice'-Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams'A compelling and inspiring book that belongs in our movements and our classrooms'-Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism Without Borders'An elegantly written masterpiece'-Barbara Ransby, author of Making All Black Lives Matter Become Ungovernable is a provocative new work of political thought setting out to reclaim "freedom", "justice", and "democracy", revolutionary ideas that are all too often warped in the interests of capital and the state. Revealing the mirage of mainstream democratic thought and the false promises of liberal political ideologies, H.L.T. Quan offers an alternative approach: an abolition feminism drawing on a kaleidoscope of refusal praxes, and on a deep engagement with the Black Radical Tradition and queer analytics.With each chapter anchored by episodes from the long history of resistance and rebellions against tyranny, Quan calls for us to take up a feminist ethic of living rooted in the principles of radical inclusion, mutuality and friendship as part of the larger toolkit for confronting fascism, white supremacy, and the neoliberal labor regime.H.L.T. Quan is a political theorist, award-winning filmmaker and Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Quan is the author of Growth Against Democracy and editor of Cedric J. Robinson.

An inspiring collection from one of the Caribbean's most vital political figures.

The first book on the political philosophy of this radical hero

A collection of essays by one of the foremost scholars on the Black Radical Tradition

A groundbreaking history of Communist organisations and struggle in the Caribbean, focusing on women, peasants of colour and black workers.

A revolutionary collection of black radical thought from a historic event in 1968.

Celebrating and critiquing the life of one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders