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Classic readings on the colonial inflections of global order

Here are some suggested classic readings on the colonial inflections of global order. If you have something to add, please send details to cpdbisa@gmail.com

  • Blyden, E. W. (1881). The Aims and Methods of Liberal Education for Africans; Inaugural Address at Liberia College.
  • Brodber, E. (1994). Louisiana: a novel. London: New Beacon Books.
  • Cabral, A. (1966). The Weapon of Theory. Speech to the Tri-Continental Conference, Havana, Cuba.
  • Césaire, A., & Kelley, R. D. G. (2000). Discourse on colonialism. New York: Monthly Review Press.
  • Césaire, S. (2012). The great camouflage: writings of dissent (1941-1945). Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press.
  • Chakrabarty, D. (2000). Provincializing Europe : postcolonial thought and historical difference. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
  • Chatterjee, P. (1997). The present history of West Bengal: essays in political criticism. Delhi [u.a.: Oxford Univ. Press.
  • Dirlik, A. (1998). The postcolonial aura: Third World criticism in the age of global capitalism. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
  • Escobar, A. (1995). Encountering development: The making and unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press.
  • Fanon, F. (1965). The Wretched of the Earth. London: Penguin.
  • Gilroy, P. (1993). The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Harvard University Press.
  • Gramsci, A. (1978). Some aspects of the southern question. Selections from Politics Writings (1921-1926).
  • Guha, R. (1983). ‘The Prose of Counter-Insurgency‘ in Ranajit Guha (ed), Subaltern Studies, II. Delhi, Oxford University Press.
  • Harding, S. G. (2008). Sciences from below: feminisms, postcolonialities, and modernities. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Hindess, B. (2007). The Past Is Another Culture*. International Political Sociology, 1(4), 325-338.
  • James, C. L. R. (2001). The black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo revolution. London: Penguin.
  • Marsden, M. (1992). Kaitiakitanga: A definitive introduction to the holistic world view of the Maori. Ministry for the Environment.
  • Mbembé, J. A. (2001). On the postcolony. University of California Press.
  • Mignolo, W. D. (2012). Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking (New in Paper). Princeton University Press.
  • Mohanty, C. T. (1988). Under Western eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Feminist Review, 61–88.
  • Munif, `Abd al-Rahman, (1989). Cities of salt. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Nandy, A. (2009). The intimate enemy: loss and recovery of self under colonialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Prakash, G. (1990). Writing post-orientalist histories of the third world: perspectives from Indian historiography. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 32(02), 383–408.
  • Rodney, W. (1990). Groundings with my brothers. London; Chicago: Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications ; Research Associates School Times Publications.
  • Said, E. W. (1973). Orientalism. London: Penguin Books.
  • Scott, D. (2004). Conscripts of modernity : the tragedy of colonial enlightenment. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Selassie, H. (1936). Appeal to the League of Nations. Geneva, June, 7th 1936.
  • Spivak, G. C. (2005). Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular. Postcolonial Studies, 8(4), 475–486.
  • President Sukarno (1955). Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference, April 18th 1955.
  • Todorov, T. (1992). The conquest of America: the question of the other. New York: HarperPerennial.
  • Wynter, S. (2003). Unsettling the coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom: Towards the human, after man, its overrepresentation–An argument. CR: The New Centennial Review, 3(3), 257–337.
  • Young, R. J. C. (2003). Postcolonialism: a very short introduction. Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press.