Towards Collective Liberation : Anti-racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy

Chris Crass
Nonfiction - 303.484 Cra

Organized into four sections, this collection of essays is geared toward activists engaging with the dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change. These essays and interviews present powerful lessons for transformative organizing. It offers a firsthand look at the challenges and the opportunities of antiracist work in white communities, feminist work with men, and bringing women of color feminism into the heart of social movements. Drawing on two decades of personal activist experience and case studies within these areas, Crass's essays insightfully explore ways of transforming divisions of race, class, and gender into catalysts for powerful vision, strategy, and building movements in the United States today. This collection will inspire and empower anyone who is interested in implementing change through organizing.


Antiracist Reading List

  • How We Fight White Supremacy : a Field Guide to Black Resistance


  • The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • How We Get Free : Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective


  • How to be Less Stupid About Race : on Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide


  • Stony the Road : Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow


  • How to be an Antiracist


  • The Color of Compromise : the Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism


  • They Were Her Property : White Women as Slave Owners in the American South


  • So You Want to Talk About Race


  • The Color of Law : a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America


  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir


  • Towards Collective Liberation : Anti-racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy


  • Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor


  • White Rage : the Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide


  • Overground Railroad : the Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America


  • Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot


  • "Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" : and Other Conversations About Race


  • Stamped from the Beginning : the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America


  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race