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Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon Fanon’s autobiography in which he discusses violence of the colonizer through destruction of the body, psyche, culture, and demarcation of space; and the violence of the colonized as an attempt to retrieve dignity, sense of self and history through anti-colonial struggle. |
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Discourse on Colonialism
By: Aimé Césaire Césaire, a poet from Martinique writes that colonizers present an image of taming a “savage” indigenous population. However, the brutal killings and land seizures conducted by colonizers proves that colonizers are the real savages. |
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The Battle of Algiers
Directed by: Gillo Pontecorvo Shot documentary style, the film portrays the major events of the Algerian Revolution in the fight to resist the French occupation. This film was required viewing for members of the Black Panther Party’s Illinois Chapter. |
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The Wretched of the Earth
By: Frantz Fanon The author provides a psychoanalysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation, and discusses the broader social, cultural, and political implications of establishing a social movement for the decolonization of a person and of a people. |
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A Dying Colonialism
By: Frantz Fanon A Dying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. |
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Toward the African Revolution
By: Frantz Fanon A collection of essays grouped under the following topics: The Problem of the Colonized, Racism and Culture, For Algeria, Toward the Liberation of Africa, and African Unity. |
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African Women in Revolution
By: Wunyabari O. Maloba This book offers a detailed multidisciplinary analysis of the roles played by African women in seven revolutionary movements (and countries) in post-World War II Africa. The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in: Algeria, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. |
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Black Power in Bermuda: The Struggle for Decolonization
Edited by: Manning Marable & Peniel Joseph This book examines the impact of Black Power on the British colony of Bermuda, where the 1972-73 assassinations of its British Police Commissioner and Governor reflected the Movement's denouncement of British imperialism and the island's racist and oligarchic society. |
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