Saidiya Hartman

20 books

Afro-Pessimism: An Introduction by Hortense J. Spillers, Steve Martinot, Jared Sexton, Saidiya Hartman, Frank B. Wilderson III

Afro-Pessimism: An Introduction

Hortense J. Spillers, Steve Martinot, Jared Sexton, Saidiya Hartman, Frank B. Wilderson III

180 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA by Okwui Enwezor, Scott Rothkopf, Adam D. Weinberg, Hilton Als, Saidiya Hartman, Franklin Sirmans

Glenn Ligon: AMERICA

Okwui Enwezor, Scott Rothkopf, Adam D. Weinberg, Hilton Als, Saidiya Hartman, Franklin Sirmans

304 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction art informative slow-paced
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman

288 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand

A Map to the Door of No Return

Dionne Brand

240 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson

The Nation on No Map

William C. Anderson

202 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

Race and American Culture

Saidiya Hartman

289 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Saidiya Hartman

464 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner by Saidiya Hartman

Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner

Saidiya Hartman

missing page info • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Diversity of Aesthetics by Andreas Petrossiants, Jose Rosales

Diversity of Aesthetics

Andreas Petrossiants, Jose Rosales

176 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction art politics
Diversity of Aesthetics: Looting (Volume 3) by Vicky Osterweil, Christina Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, Rinaldo Walcott
Diversity of Aesthetics: Looting (Volume 3)
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Vicky Osterweil, Christina Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, Rinaldo Walcott

Diversity of Aesthetics: Looting (Volume 3)

Vicky Osterweil, Christina Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, Rinaldo Walcott

64 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added