Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List

PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.” —Ro...

A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which t...

One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020 One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development Insti...

An Enemy Such as This tells the story of the Casuses, a Navajo family whose lives overlay like a map onto the places and world-historical events at the heart of nineteenth and twentieth century colonial conquest.

Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized. The death toll in Gaza continues to rise―a col...

A powerful collection of testimonies from Palestinians facing genocide and displacement in Gaza with hope and resistance. Displaced in Gaza aims to raise global awareness of how violent displaceme...

The definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians. US trade unionists ...

A collection of interviews with some of the world’s leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more a...

From the organizers of the Palestine Festival of Literature, this anthology of essays connects Palestinian resistance with global freedom struggles against settler colonialism and calls on us to th...

Articulating abolitionist and anti-colonial presents and futures, Rehearsals for Living asks what it means to get free.

Even the River Starts Small is a collection of stories from the movement to stop construction of the Line 3 pipeline through northern Minnesota. The collection features anonymous writing, art, and...

How We Go Home shares contemporary Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land and life.

A beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological transformation.

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (“the voice of the resistance”—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to...

A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Environmentalism from Below takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberat...

An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.

A groundbreaking examination of the colonial legacy and future of Ireland, showing how Ireland’s story is linked to and informs anti-imperialism around the world.  Colonialism is at the heart of ma...

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state has become the most toxic site in the Western Hemisphere, yet most Americans are in the dark about the damage their government's nuclear obsession has wrought on the environment and their tax dollars.

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.

A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis—featuring a new preface by the author. “Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more t...

Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian ...

Abolishing State Violence calls for the abolition of structures of violence, including police, prisons, borders, war, nuclear weapons, surveillance, and capitalism.

For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the global focal point of intractable conflict, one that has led to one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises. In their own words, men and women from West Bank and Gaza describe how their lives have been shaped by the conflict. Here are stories that humanize the oft-ignored violations of human rights that occur daily in the occupied Palestinian territories.

A compelling argument that re-building unions requires solidarity with migrant workers and opening borders.

An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.

Puerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane María and its aftermath.

A perfect introduction to one of the most influential figures in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism.

This classic book is the first truly comprehensive history of American imperialism.

The Nature of Police explores the everyday practices of police and policing as modes of violence in the fabrication of social order.