Ten titles about combating far-right white nationalism through activism

Shane Burley is a journalist and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End it (2017) and Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse (2021), and the editor of the forthcoming anthology No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis (2022). His work has been featured in places such as NBC News, The Daily Beast, The Baffler, Full Stop, Al Jazeera, The Independent, Xtra, and Bandcamp Daily.

At Electric Lit Burley tagged "ten books to add to your own antifascist reading list to help counter the despair that white nationalists hope to impart with a heavy dose of rebellion." One title on the list:

As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi

This manifesto from William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi stands as one of the most important books of the last decade, situating a radical identity of Blackness at the heart of the rebellion against the structural white supremacy that drives our country’s politics and economy. Building on an earlier essay that looked at the inherent “anarchism of Blackness,” the experience of African-descended people’s exclusions from systems of privilege and protection, the book creates a subaltern vision for keeping communities safe from racist violence and building a new kind of society in the shell of the old one.

Read about the other entries on the list at Electric Lit.

--Marshal Zeringue