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Best books for understanding colonialism? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa was especially enlightening for me. His other works, along with Frantz Fanon's body of work, are essential reading imo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Neo-colonialism by ~~Fanon~~ Nkrumah is a great book! I really need to get around to reading the rest of his body of work.

Edit: I mixed up authors. I'd read Wretched of the Earth by Fanon. Neo-colonialism was Kwame Nkrumah who also did some great work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

John Smith - Imperialism in the 21st century. At least for imperialism in it's modern incarnation. Some other books:

Settlers
an indigenous peoples history of the US.
killing hope
the black jacobins
galeano - open veins of latin america
losurdo - liberalism, a counter history

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano