Political Science

Studying geo-politics, racial capitalism and the global economic system is imperative for anyone who is trying to understand the world around them. Questions such as “why are Africans so poor when their lands are filled with resources?”, “why do so many non-white people want to come to white countries?”, “why do Western countries have to give charity to ‘Third World’ countries?” and “why are so many Black people considered criminals?” can only be answered to the fullest with a thorough understanding of political science. Otherwise, the answers you are left with will, at best, be limited analyses that blame the victims for their own problems.

These are the books we used to create our Political Science module. They shine a light on white imperialism and show how that no matter if in Kingston, Kenya or Kensington, Black life is deemed exploitable and expendable.

*How Europe Underdeveloped Africa**, Walter Rodney*

*The Looting Machine**, Tom Burgis*

*Damming the Flood**, Peter Hallward*

*An Unbroken Agony**, Randall Robinson*

*The New Jim Crow**, Michelle Alexander*

*The Strange Career of Jim Crow**, C. Vann Woodward*

*Apartheid, Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit**, Hennie van Vuuren*

*The Assassination of Lumumba**, Ludo De Witte*

*African Leaders of the 20th Century: Biko, Selassie, Lumumba, Sankara**, various authors*

*The Wretched of the Earth**, Frantz Fanon*

*China’s Second Continent**, Howard W. French*

*Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism**, Kwame Nkrumah*

*The Assassination of Fred Hampton**, Jeffery Haas*

*Biafra: Britain’s Shame**, Auberon Waugh*

*Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya**, Caroline Elkins*

*Untouchables: Dirty Cops, Bent Justice and Racism in Scotland Yard**, Laurie Flynn and Michael Gillard*

*American Apartheid**, Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton*

*Slavery by Another Name**, Douglas Blackmon*

*Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror**, Elizabeth Schmidt*

*The West and the Rest of Us**, Chinweizu*

*Decolonising the African Mind**, Chinweizu*

*The New Age of Empire**, Kehinde Andrews*

*Stamped From the Beginning**, Ibram X. Kendi*

*A Dying Colonialism**, Frantz Fanon*

*South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid**, Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger*

*The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders**, John Potash*

*Black-On-Black Violence**, Amos Wilson*

*Natives**, Akala*

*Black Resistance to British Policing**, Adam Elliot-Cooper*

*Capitalism and Slavery**, Eric Williams*

*Brazil: Mixture or Massacre?**, Abdias do Nascimento*

*COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War On Political Freedom**, Nelson Blackstock*

*Discourse on Colonialism**, Aimé Césaire*

*Black Reconstruction in America**, W. E. B. Du Bois*

*Decolonising the Mind**, N’gugi Wa Thiong’o*

*Faces at the Bottom of the Well**, Derrick Bell*

*It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop**, M.K. Asante, jr.*

*There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack**, Paul Gilroy*

*Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order**, Stuart Hall and others*

Political Science

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney

The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis

Damming the Flood, Peter Hallward

An Unbroken Agony, Randall Robinson

The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C. Vann Woodward

Apartheid, Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit, Hennie van Vuuren

The Assassination of Lumumba, Ludo De Witte

African Leaders of the 20th Century: Biko, Selassie, Lumumba, Sankara, various authors

The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

China’s Second Continent, Howard W. French

Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Kwame Nkrumah

The Assassination of Fred Hampton, Jeffery Haas

Biafra: Britain’s Shame, Auberon Waugh

Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya, Caroline Elkins

Untouchables: Dirty Cops, Bent Justice and Racism in Scotland Yard, Laurie Flynn and Michael Gillard

American Apartheid, Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton

Slavery by Another Name, Douglas Blackmon

Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Elizabeth Schmidt

The West and the Rest of Us, Chinweizu

Decolonising the African Mind, Chinweizu

The New Age of Empire, Kehinde Andrews

Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi

A Dying Colonialism, Frantz Fanon

South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid, Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger

The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders, John Potash

Black-On-Black Violence, Amos Wilson

Natives, Akala

Black Resistance to British Policing, Adam Elliot-Cooper

Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams

Brazil: Mixture or Massacre?, Abdias do Nascimento

COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War On Political Freedom, Nelson Blackstock

Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire

Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois

Decolonising the Mind, N’gugi Wa Thiong’o

Faces at the Bottom of the Well, Derrick Bell

It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, M.K. Asante, jr.

There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack, Paul Gilroy

Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order, Stuart Hall and others

The Condemnation of Blackness, Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Policing the Planet, Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton

Police: A Field Guide, David Correia and Tyler Wall

Rasta and Resistance, Horace Campbell

Planet of Slums, Mike Davis

The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain, Ron Ramdin