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Making Worlds

We are a nonprofit, worker cooperative bookstore in West Philadelphia. Through books and events, we are making space for abolition, autonomy, ecological self-determination, and affirmation of worlds imagined and made by Black, Brown, Indigenous liberation.

Inspiring Children's books VIEW LIST (13 BOOKS)
Momma, Can I Sleep with You Tonight? Helping Children Cope with the Impact of COVID-19
How Was Your Summer? Fostering Critical Conversations with Students
Friday Stories Learning About Haiti 2
Zonia's Rain Forest
The Tree in Me
The Honeybee
Watercress
Tiny, Perfect Things
Hilda: The Wilderness Stories: Hilda & the Troll /Hilda & the Midnight Giant
Big Book of the Blue
The House of Madame M
If You Come to Earth
Best Sellers and Hand Picks VIEW LIST (21 BOOKS)
Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
Homegoing
W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
Luster
Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems
DMZ Colony
We Are Not Free
Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire
The Abolition of White Democracy
Abolishing Carceral Society
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Assata: An Autobiography

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Making Worlds Books VIEW LIST (49 BOOKS)
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives
Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Updated)
The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me
The Origins of Collective Decision Making
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability: The Community Rights Movement in the United States
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion
Against the Fascist Creep
Beat the Heat: How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement

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SNCC at Sixty VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer: America's Freedom Fighting Woman
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
In Struggle: Sncc and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
SNCC: The New Abolitionists
Sncc's Stories: The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South
The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of Sncc
Many Minds, One Heart: Sncc's Dream for a New America
Black August VIEW LIST (18 BOOKS)
Assata: An Autobiography
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party (New Edition)
Resisting State Violence
Prisons on Fire: Attica, George Jackson and Black Liberation
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition
Blood in My Eye
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Black August
Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s
Black August: 1619-2019
Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

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Free Palestine VIEW LIST (16 BOOKS)
All That's Left to You: A Novella and Short Stories
Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine
On Palestine
Ardh Al Burtuqal Al Hazin: Short Stories in Arabic
Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse

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CARE at the Asian Arts Initiative VIEW LIST (64 BOOKS)
Folklorn
Interior Chinatown
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The Committed
The Refugees
Making and Remaking Asian America
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America
Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
The Making of Asian America: A History
Take Care of Your Self: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation
Revolution and Evolution

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Sovereignty, Solidarity, & The Land Back Movement VIEW LIST (16 BOOKS)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #Nodapl Movement
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning of the West from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume I: The Impact of American Indians o
Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume II: The Continuing Impact of American Indian Wa
Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume III: What Would Be Good to Continue Learning fr
Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume IV: What Would Be Good to Continue Learning fro
Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire
Abolishing Carceral Society

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Paul Robeson, presente! VIEW LIST (24 BOOKS)
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell
Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice
Futures of Black Radicalism
Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment
Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal Statevolume 43
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; A Play in Three Acts
Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary
Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

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The Politics of Care VIEW LIST (5 BOOKS)
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
The Politics of Care
The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?
For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond Austerity--Reflections from Greece