Research Guides: SOC 302 Social Thought: Readings for Social Theory

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Social Theory Rewired, 3rd. edition
"A rich collection of web-based materials—including interactive versions of key texts, open spaces to write and reflect on readings, biographical sketches of authors, and dozens of supplementary sources—that transports social theory from its classic period to the vibrant and complex world of now."--website

Black Skin, White Masks / by Frantz Fanon ; Translated by Charles Lam Markmann
Fanon, born in Martinique and educated in France, is generally regarded as the leading anti-colonial thinker of the 20th century. His first book is an analysis of the impact of colonial subjugation on the black psyche. It is a very personal account of Fanon's experience being black: as a man, an intellectual, and a party to a French education.--Adapted from wikipedia.org
The Wretched of the Earth / by Frantz Fanon Translated from the French by Richard Philcox with commentary by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha
"Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century's most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial difference, and this, his masterwork, is a classic alongside Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X." "The Wretched of the Earth is an analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage of colonized peoples and the role of violence in historical change, the book also incisively attacks postindependence disenfranchisement of the masses by the elite on one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. A veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black-consciousness movements around the world. This new translation updates its language for a new generation of readers and its lessons are more vital now than ever."--BOOK JACKET
Sociology Hesitant / W. E. B. Du Bois
Pedagogy of the Oppressed / Paulo Freire ; translated by Myra Bergman Ramos ; with an introduction by Donaldo Macedo.
"The methodology of the late Paulo Freire, once considered such a threat to the established order that he was "invited" to leave his native Brazil, has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm." "With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come."--Jacket.
Book Tools for Malcolm X speaks : selected speeches and statements / edited with prefatory notes by George Breitman. Malcolm X speaks : selected speeches and statements / edited with prefatory notes by George Breitman.
Presents the major ideas expounded by the legendary leader of the Black revolution in America through selected speeches delivered from 1963 to his assassination in 1965.
Book Tools for The autobiography of Malcolm X / with the assistance of Alex Haley ; introduction by M.S. Handler ; epilogue by Alex Haley ; afterword by Ossie Davis. The autobiography of Malcolm X / as told to Alex Haley
Written by Alex Haley from conversations with the Black leader over a period of two years before his death.